The children's charity Barnardos says children's emotional, social and educational development has been impacted by school closures and that it's important they reopen fully in the autumn.
It said the priority needs to be schools opening full time rather than blended learning as they believe children's needs have not been met by school closures and they have "educationally suffered".
And it said that if pubs and restaurants can open full-time there is no reason why schools can't. Barnardos CEO, Suzanne Connolly, said the charity is particularly worried for those children who are socially and economically disadvantaged and said the time out of school has been a "nightmare for them".