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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Douglas Whitbread

College where teacher died of Covid ‘encouraged staff to break rules and endangered lives’

Stephanie Coleman / SWNS

A college where a teacher died of Covid-19 has become the first educational establishment in the UK found to have to breached health and safety laws during the pandemic.

Burnely College in Lancashire was found to have failed to ensure staff safety during the outbreak of the virus in a damning report by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).

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