Today, Esther McVey speaks to parents about the impact the schools shutdown is having on their children.  The parents are all part of the group UsforThem - a campaign to reopen schools that's taken the country by storm this week.

They ask how can it be right that school children - those least affected by COVID-19 itself - are the ones who are being most impacted by the Government's measures to tackle it?

A year on from our last discussion on education, schools are still shut.  What have we done to a generation of children in that intervening year?

Speaker list:

• Liz Cole, Co-Founder of UsforThem (01:40)

• Victoria Slatter, mother of two (06:17)

• Christine Brett, Co-Founder of UsforThem (08:27)

• Adrian Kneeshaw, CEO fo Carlton Bolling Academy Trust (16:14)

• Rachel Maile, parent (20:24)

• Emma Reece, parent (23:55)