About 50 school 'hubs' are set to open in Kent during the Easter holidays for the children of key workers.

Plans are being drawn up for centralised sites across the county to look after vulnerable pupils and those with a parent in a critical job.

It would allow children to go to a school within three miles of their home - as opposed to their normal school - during the two-week break.

It follows Boris Johnson's orders last week that every school in the country should shut from Monday to the majority of pupils.

Those still able to attend are the vulnerable - typically those with a social worker - and the children of key workers, such as nurses, police officers and delivery drivers.

As a result, 422 primaries and 97 secondaries in Kent have remained open this week with skeleton staff.

Just 37 have shut their doors, but it is understood these are likely smaller schools or those part of an academy chain, with pupils being catered for on a shared site.

Kent County Council has not released data on the number of children who have attended school this week, but the figures are said to be much lower than anticipated.

Matt Dunkley, the authority's corporate director for education, says there has been a "Herculean" effort to keep schools open.

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