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It's not so much that the guidance about Christmas is a problem, it's the wider operating environment in which it operates. An example.
Plenty of students need part time work. Our student funding system assumes they can and will obtain it to part fund their costs.
Students studying away from home lucky enough to have obtained a part time job this term will be super keen to keep working until Christmas week. Work dried up in Nov, but plenty of shifts coming in supermarkets, wider retail and hopefully by Dec 2 some hospitality.
That means the STW doesn't work for them at all. Now clearly on one level you could say "well if they end up with symptoms after Dec 9 and don't go home they stay in situ at their own risk".
But I don't understand why we accept that that in effect means that low income family students are more likely to have to miss their family Christmas. Why, as a society, do we put low income students in the position of having to choose between Xmas and paying the rent?
But shoestring budget guidance from DfE could never address that because its out of scope. So in the end I don't mind the guidance much - it's fairly irrelevant tbh.
