Teachers - rules - update

[Floridatilly]

What are the rules regarding covid symptoms and teachers teaching?
My husbands work requires any teacher with symptoms to stay off until a negative PCR test is done.
Masons school have just tang to say his teacher is full of a cold but LFT is negative so no need for PCR test.
Mason is vulnerable so this doesn’t sit well with me because LFT tests are not as accurate as PCR tests.
Can I insist a PCR test be done or is it tough luck?

[ElsasGloves]

It’s tough luck. You can’t insist that anyone has a PCR test and it would be a breach of confidentiality to tell you the results of any test that a member of staff takes.
Sorry if that sounds harsh, but there’s more chance of your son contracting Covid from a classmate instead of the teacher and primary aged children are not routinely tested.

[Ds4ljs]

I’m not sure about your child’s school as everywhere has their own protocols but at my school if I had a heavy cold and my LFT was negative, they would expect me to be at work. Like I say, everywhere is different so I’d talk to someone at your son’s school. X

[Floridatilly]

Originally Posted by Ds4ljs

I’m not sure about your child’s school as everywhere has their own protocols but at my school if I had a heavy cold and my LFT was negative, they would expect me to be at work. Like I say, everywhere is different so I’d talk to someone at your son’s school. X

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So your school are happy to have you teach with covid symptoms and just a negative LFT?
I find it baffling, no wonder numbers are shooting back up.
My husbands place of work demand the teachers stay off until a negative PCR test is done however thats a college so I don’t know how it works with primary schools x

[Chilli-pepper]

One of the difficulties going into the winter will be distinguishing between normal winter colds/coughs/sneezes and COVID, in turn we need to decide whether we ‘believe’ and put stock in LFT’s or not.

If the teacher has cold/COVID symptoms and an LFT comes back negative, we need to believe that and crack on – otherwise what’s the point in LFT’s and we might as well make the decision to just go straight to PCR’s

[Floridatilly]

Originally Posted by Chilli-pepper

One of the difficulties going into the winter will be distinguishing between normal winter colds/coughs/sneezes and COVID, in turn we need to decide whether we ‘believe’ and put stock in LFT’s or not.

If the teacher has cold/COVID symptoms and an LFT comes back negative, we need to believe that and crack on – otherwise what’s the point in LFT’s and we might as well make the decision to just go straight to PCR’s

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I totally agree, with winter coming it’s going to be difficult to know whats a cold and whats covid 🙈
I personally have no faith in LFT because all my three had negative ones but positive PCR tests.
Alder hey won’t accept any LFT, only PCR’s and Mason has his next infusion next week.
If Mason wasn’t vulnerable then it would be a case of just getting on with things. I am not sure how far duty of care goes at school, he has a health care plan. I have asked for some work to be sent home but they are now paperless and not doing Google classrooms for just one child. 😣🙈

[RuthieR]

Originally Posted by Floridatilly

I totally agree, with winter coming it’s going to be difficult to know whats a cold and whats covid 🙈
I personally have no faith in LFT because all my three had negative ones but positive PCR tests.
Alder hey won’t accept any LFT, only PCR’s and Mason has his next infusion next week.
If Mason wasn’t vulnerable then it would be a case of just getting on with things. I am not sure how far duty of care goes at school, he has a health care plan. I have asked for some work to be sent home but they are now paperless and not doing Google classrooms for just one child. 😣🙈

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If you remove your child from school over fear of covid, your child is it marked as an unauthorised absence and school are not obliged to provide work - only if child has positive case of covid. I understand where you are coming from as your son is vulnerable but rules are rules. If schools let parents take the children out because they are afraid of covid then no children would be in school. Most of the time an infected person has not yet had the results from their PCR so are in school / work spreading it as that's the Govmt rules. I deal with this as work in a school office

[keely21]

Originally Posted by Floridatilly

I totally agree, with winter coming it’s going to be difficult to know whats a cold and whats covid 🙈
I personally have no faith in LFT because all my three had negative ones but positive PCR tests.
Alder hey won’t accept any LFT, only PCR’s and Mason has his next infusion next week.
If Mason wasn’t vulnerable then it would be a case of just getting on with things. I am not sure how far duty of care goes at school, he has a health care plan. I have asked for some work to be sent home but they are now paperless and not doing Google classrooms for just one child. 😣🙈

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My daughter had 5 negative lateral flow tests but cold symptoms so did a pcr quick was positive. I dont trust lateral flows now and believe if you have symptoms a pcr should be done. Arent lateral flow tests for when you dont have symptoms?

[Floridatilly]

I have collected Mason. The IBD team said he has to stay off school until a negative PCR test is done by the teacher or stay off for 10 days. So I have showed the head teacher the email.
General guidelines in schools seems to be if you have symptoms then you take a test so I don’t know why in this case school is accepting LFT 😖

[sparrow]

The LFT is to be used if there are no symptoms. If you have symptoms you should have a PCR.