AUTHORITIES should consult health experts as well as education stakeholders on what measures to adopt to ensure the success of the return to face-to-face classes, a top leader of the Catholic church said over the weekend.

In a statement, Bayombong Bishop Jose Elmer Mangalinao, who heads the Episcopal Commission on Catechesis and Catholic Education of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), said that consultation and adoption of policies are the keys to enabling the government to push through with the successful opening of classes for the school year 2022-2023.