Noteable events for the week ahead

• COVID-19 - Government Guidance - 28-02-22

  Mon 28 Feb 2022

  Government Guidance - 28-02-22

   

  • No need to continue twice weekly testing (apart from special schools)
  • Please keep up the basic mitigations such as hand hygiene and regular cleaning
  • Those who feel ill or exhibit any of the main symptoms should stay at home and access a PCR (they are still available)
  • You should ask staff and pupils who are symptomatic to stay away from school whilst waiting for a PCR test, and if they test positive they should not be in school. Schools can insist on this, if not to do so risks spreading Covid in school (which, of course, it does). Return on day 5 after two negative tests is still fine. 
  • No need to self-isolate as a close contact of a family member. But reasonable to ask staff to be careful and alert to symptoms.

• Isolation Period- COVID-19 - 26-02-22

  Sat 26 Feb 2022

  Changes to self-isolation and daily testing of close contacts

  From Thursday 24 February, the Government will remove the legal requirement to self-isolate following a positive test. Adults and children who test positive will continue to be advised to stay at home and avoid contact with other people for at least 5 full days, and then continue to follow the guidance until they have received 2 negative test results on consecutive days. In addition, the Government will:

  No longer ask fully vaccinated close contacts and those aged under 18 to test daily for 7 days, and remove the legal requirement for close contacts who are not fully vaccinated to self-isolate. End self-isolation support payments, national funding for practical support and the medicine delivery service will no longer be available. End routine contact tracing. Contacts will no longer be required to self-isolate or advised to take daily tests. Staff, children and young people should attend their education settings as usual. This includes staff who have been in close contact within their household, unless they are able to work from home. End the legal obligation for individuals to tell their employers when they are required to self-isolate.