With regards to online learning, it seems unwise for the government to create a law that schools simply cannot follow, and which schools in the most deprived areas will find most difficult to follow. Kind of creates a rod for their own back.

They've done this do they can a) steam ahead with exams in 2021 b) signal to parents that government are on their side against unwilling schools and unions

Which would work if the issue was one of will. But when families don't have the required tech or WiFi, when schools don't have the required tech for staff, when they don't have the capacity alongside the safeguarding and food delivery operations they're having to run, then what?

Well... then it just highlights the huge systemic issues schools are battling with, especially in the most deprived areas.

And you've just made them lawbreakers for it.

Seems a bit mad.

If you thought the correlation between deprivation and Ofsted was already a problem, watch what happens when this comes in.