Inside the Danish school that could hold the key to unlocking row with unions

Headteacher Søren Friis stands outside the entry to the stairwell leading up to the first and second-year classrooms, saying good morning to each pupil and then giving each a squirt of alcohol gel in their right palm. Ten metres away at another stairwell, his colleague Irene Nielsen is doing the same. It's a month now since Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen dropped in here at Lykkebo Skole on the day Denmark became the first country in Europe to reopen schools for pupils up to the age of 1