{"id":91009,"date":"2026-06-22T08:07:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T08:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=91009"},"modified":"2026-06-22T08:07:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T08:07:30","slug":"government-issues-major-school-closure-update-as-met-office-warns-of-38c-heatwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/22\/government-issues-major-school-closure-update-as-met-office-warns-of-38c-heatwave\/","title":{"rendered":"Government issues major school closure update as Met Office warns of 38C heatwave"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA26efn1.img?w=590&h=393&m=6\" alt=\"Empty primary school classroom\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Government has issued an update on whether schools need to close as temperatures are set to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/weather\/2219997\/met-office-38c-heatwave-hottest-cities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">\u00a0soar to 38C this week<\/a>.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/government-issues-major-school-closure-update-as-met-office-warns-of-38c-heatwave\/ar-AA26eLMf?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a38ec8ffab240eaa701cc788ed2b979&ei=39\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The Government has issued an update on whether schools need to close as temperatures are set to\u00a0soar to 38C this week.\u00a0 Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/empty-classroom.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91010,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91009\/revisions\/91010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}