uk education
Those sitting the final year test say they were forced to urinate in their seats, with some disqualified for making notes.
Jenny Harries also told MPs a firm date for schools to fully return cannot be "set in concrete".
Parents are going hungry so they can feed their children due to the "ridiculous" food parcels they have received.
One mother posted a photo of a package she had received during lockdown which was estimated to contain about £5 worth of food.
One headteacher said first week attendance had increased fivefold from the March lockdown – other schools are 70% full.
Digital poverty is still impacting schoolchildren and their families in the third lockdown, with thousands lacking the tools they need.
Schools will have prepped for the week ahead – and now fridges full of perishable food will have to be binned.
A leading child poverty charity has slammed the plan, saying it "trades off education with health inequalities".
Pupils due to take their vocational exams this month are "terrified" and feel forgotten by the government.
Boris Johnson's press secretary Allegra Stratton says the prime minister has full confidence in his under-fire education secretary.