To write to school to tell them not to give my 7 year old a LFT

[drspouse]

Letter home from school.
If a child shows symptoms of COVID the school team will administer a LFT and ring us afterwards.
If we want them to ring first we need to tell them by writing in their home school diary.
NO.
If my DD has COVID symptoms she needs isolation and a PCR. Done at home. By me.
This is my (mainly) NT child but she screamed and kicked when she had a PCR test (and turned out to have COVID). So on the one hand... Good luck to them!
But I'm not giving her an LFT with symptoms anyway!

LFTs are no longer for people who don't have symptoms. If you read the leaflet that comes with them it clearly states that they are also for people with symptoms.

@Slowfoxfast If you're symptomatic you have to get a PCR test regardless of whether the LF test is positive or negative, even under the new rules, so what exactly is the point of the school doing an LF test on a symptomatic child?

(When I say 'have to' I mean you're advised to in the guidelines - I realise it's not actually mandatory)

AAARGH - DD has a close contact in her class tested positive so needs to have daily LFTs for 7 days.
But it's us doing it - so that's fine (well, apart from the fact we'll get kicked/bitten/screamed at).