Parents anxious about whether their child’s school is open today after the weekend’s snow will find no help from the county council: the website is not responding.

Chris commented: ‘In many cases schools have update their own websites very clearly. But this is not universal and those parents who cannot find out from the school will discover that the county council’s own site is often failing to load. When it does load it tells parents to contact schools.

‘It is sadly typical for the County Council to fail to provide adequate information on snow days or strike days.’