workers are being encouraged to return
to their places of work if they can't
work from home and the government said
it was working with employers to
establish guidance about making the
workplace safe our business editor Simon
Jack has been looking at how businesses
are adapting hi ho back to work we go
manufacturing workers actively
encouraged tonight by the PM to return
at Ford Technical Center in Dunton so
far 600 of 4000 employees already have a
squad of hand gel and a temperature
check now part of the morning routine
but feeding the Ford 4000 may take a
miracle of organization catering firm
Compass run the staff canteen and the
kitchens that would usually have ten
chefs on duty business is slow communal
areas like staff canteens one of the big
challenges a lot of people thinking they
should be shot compass you run this
think they can do it safely but as you
can see it's not that busy it's not so
much whether they think they can do it
is where the workers feel comfortable
and that applies to kitchen and canteen
workers as well if employees don't want
to do anything we're not going to force
anybody to do anything the priority at
the moment is to make sure they've got
the right PPE they've got the right
training and that we put the right
processes in place that you've seen
today in the yorkshire dales at the
Gamecock in the food is take out only
Erika Murray served 56 takeaway Sunday
lunches this afternoon the Prime
Minister raised hopes that hospitality
could partially reopen in July but
Murray worries that opening too soon may
be as risky as not opening for months
having one table of deines and which
isn't worth opening for we just don't
have you know the overheads and more
expensive than what we'd be bringing in
or there's also the other way that we
might not have open until next year and
by then we won't have the funds to be
able to do it either
the truth is the businesses big and
small are already inching back to work
but it's a journey of confidence and
unions aren't convinced the government
has everyone on board particularly as
the government says workers should avoid
using public transport I'm afraid the
prime minister's statement tonight is a
recipe for confusion and possibly chaos
with just 12 hours notice people are
being encouraged to go back to work but
without any answers on what happens on
public transports what happens if you've
got children what happens if you're
supposed to be shielded or fun rubble in
some other way back at Ford
manufacturing managers feel ready to go
in those areas where we've prepared
successfully which we have we've
prepared diligently which we have then I
think it's time to go back to work
updated guidelines on making workplaces
safe are expected on Tuesday
these are tentative moves forward and
the government told business groups on a
call tonight it would put them back into
reverse if it has to so I'm a jack BBC
news now the move to reopen schools in
England is seen as a vital factor in
kick-starting the economy by allowing
parents to return to work we'll talk to
our economics editor Faisal Islam in
just a moment but before that let's talk
to our education correspondent Lane
Dunkley who's in Salford tonight and
Alain what do you make of this package
and what are the questions raised well
primary school children in England could
be going back to school in just over
three weeks so those in reception year
one and year six they could be going
back after the first of June and the
prime minister also announced that
secondary school pupils who are taking
exams next year could also be going back
to get some extra time with teachers but
there are going to be some big maybes
hanging over this and some even bigger
headaches and the headache being social
distancing within the classrooms
teachers are very concerned particularly
when they've got primary school children
that they won't be able to maintain
social distancing hand-washing
minimising social interactions in the
playground in the classroom in the
canteen and this is going to hugely
change the classroom environments and
also there's the issue of if a child
becomes ill what happens does the whole
school then have to go into isolation
now the teaching unions have called this
reckless they've asked for clear
scientific evidence for a safe time to
return back to school they say that this
doesn't pass the confidence test with
parents teachers and whilst there is a
need to have children back at school
this is a big lesson in keeping teachers
children on their family safe lane many
thanks again plane tug leader for us our
education correspondent in suffered back
here in the studio Faisal is with me our
economics editor and clearly the
government's dealing with a huge health
crisis and has been for months now but
tell us a little more than about the
economic crisis that they're also having
to deal with see right so two crises
here as the prime minister says
hopefully the health one is peaked but
the economic one gets more severe by the
week and if you cut through everything
that the prime minister said today then
what you get is the fact that the
economic clock down in essence stays
largely and indeed is extended in terms
of things like restaurants and cafes and
cinemas we'll get the detail tomorrow
into July that's another seven weeks in
other areas there we'll have heard the
change in in tone the shift of emphasis
as the Prime Minister called it from
stay at home to to stay alert what's
that about now I think when the original
prohibitions and the original lockdown
was brought in and the government didn't
expect so many businesses and so many
workers that did have some discretion to
still work not to take it up the
lockdown wasn't watertight but it felt
more watertight than it was
so I think that in that what they're
trying to do is essentially persuade
people to use the discretion in the
existing rules that's what the Prime
Minister's words were about there's one
more thing if the infection rate goes up
promises also said the brakes will be
applied now that has economic
implications too and it's why you cannot
disentangle the health and the economics
two crises for now the health one taking
priority over the economic reopening but
once again many thanks to puzzle Islam
there are economics editor