1/ NEW: Govt failure to issue reasonable key worker definitions places schools in an impossible position - @PaulWhiteman6
#COVID19 #Lockdown3 #schoolsreopening

https://www.naht.org.uk/news-and-opinion/press-room/government-failure-to-issue-reasonable-key-worker-definitions-places-schools-in-an-impossible-position-says-naht/

2/ "Days after the government announced another national lockdown to supress the spread of Coronavirus, it has issued guidance which fills some schools almost to capacity running counter to the Prime Minister’s stated objective...

3/ "Our members have reported to us that there has been significant additional demand for school places this time around. They cannot meet the demand created by government and reduce social mixing in the way the Prime Minister announced...

4/ “The government acknowledges that schools do play a role in the transmission of the virus. Therefore, there comes a point when occupancy levels might be so high that they work against the efforts to bring down infection rates in communities, as is the national aim...

5/ “Equally, if all staff are fully utilised teaching classes in school who is left to deliver the home learning for the few not covered in the definition?

6/ “Given the national priority to supress the virus, we believe that the govt should offer guidance to schools so that reasonable levels of attendance can be set from school to school...

7/ " #Schools have been put in an impossible position. In short, we urge the govt to be clear about how many pupils on-site is too many, if the virus is to be suppressed.” @PaulWhiteman6 #COVID19 #schoolsreopening #lockdown