This is what Derry Journal readers think about sending their kids back to school

Our lockdown survey, published on derryjournal.com as well as 150 other websites across the UK last week, asked readers 25 questions about how the coronavirus crisis has shaped the lives, opinions and habits of people in the North West - and what they’d like to see happen in the coming weeks and months.

One of the questions in the survey focused on children - asking readers whether they would feel comfortable about their kids going back to school in early June. Today we can reveal how readers in Derry answered.

The majority of Journal readers - 51% - said they felt ‘not at all comfortable’ about their kids returning to school in early June, with readers who felt ‘slightly comfortable’ in the minority - 10%.

On a national level, almost half - 44.7% - of respondents said they felt “not at all comfortable” with their children returning to school in early June, which is the timeframe the Prime Minister has announced for England.

Around one fifth of respondents - 19.3% - feel “not very comfortable” about the idea, with just 17.4% saying they feel “very comfortable” and 16.9% saying they feel “slightly comfortable”.

When asked which element of everyday life they were most looking forward to as restrictions ease, “your children going back to school” was presented as one of the options.

19% of readers in Derry said that they were looking forward to this.

On a national level, just 16% of respondents said they were looking forward to their kids going back to school. The most popular option was seeing family, which 77.2% of respondents nationally said they were looking forward to.

The everyday activity readers in Derry are looking forward to most is ‘seeing family’ with 81% of participants choosing this option.

Tomorrow we will be publishing more results of what local people had to say in our lockdown survey.

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