Bugger. Was being all complacent about my kids going back to school in Sept, then I checked the dashboard

[DebbieFiderer]

I hadn't seen the local dashboard before but have just taken a look after someone posted the link on another thread. My village and most of the borough has no casds, but there is one small local outbreak, of 6 cases, in one small area of the borough. It's the classic type of area that seems to be hardest hit - high BAME population (highest by far in the borough) and high levels of deprivation. It also happens to be where DD's secondary school is located 😥 I'm still not especially worried about the risk of catching it, the odds are still very low and we are all low risk, and I come into close contact with far more people at work than she will at school, but it does bring it home a bit.

Click on the hyperlink to "more on cases" and then go to the bottom and then click on view map.

To get the map you click on 'more on cases' then scroll down to the bottom

Go to the top and click.on cases

[quote Redolent]Yeah it’s definitely worth keeping in mind in terms of evaluating risk in and around your area. I can see a very unfair situation where certain schools (in deprived areas) keep closing as a result, and others continue undisturbed.

Dashboard here - check the map at the very bottom.

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Share your concern.

I think the economic divide in education risks being widened through this.

And I can see why. It must be so difficult to decide wether you send your ill but fine child to school or lose a wage and not be able to feed them. And then the consequences of this causing spread. And then the consequences of that.

This really is the time that people really should start to understand the reality of poverty. support not blame is what these communities need.

same here but they say something about technical difficulties at the top?

And THANKYOU for guiding me to the map.

I'd always used the cases table but had never seen that. So helpful.

Found the map. Is this showing daily cases? I thought the areas of the country in lockdown would be considerably higher? There’s no darker shades of blue anywhere

Just seen the map. Thanks!

It's ashame the map's only got England. Whenever I see the info for Wales, it just goes by county and this county is huge, so doesn't tell you about local cases.

A lot of grey, my area is grey

If you zoom in on Leicester there’s some darker blue

@Littlemiss74

Found the map. Is this showing daily cases? I thought the areas of the country in lockdown would be considerably higher? There’s no darker shades of blue anywhere

I can definitely see dark blue - eg Oldham, with 55 confirmed cases in Alexandra Park in the last week.

Glad the map is helpful. The data presentation has come along hugely it has to be said.

On the link, you need to click "cases" on the left hand toolbar, then the map's at the bottom - enlarge it to see the deeper blue areas

Sadly, many of these are around the BAME areas in Oldham, Rochdale, Burnley, Rotherham, etc ... basically the areas which have been a concern for a while

If you're going to send them back to school, especially secondary, I think you just have to accept there's a good chance they will catch it and not worry about it.

This is what worries me! Both dh and I are at increased risk, dh especially so, and ds3 goes back to school tomorrow. If he gets it then it’s likely that we will too. I’m reluctant to keep him off if everyone else is going back, and the numbers are very low here at the moment, but it’s not an easy decision.

Note the map is for last week - ie 1st August to 7th August. They tell you at the top how out of date it is. It used to be that it was a week and a half out of date (they published on a Thursday for the week ending on a Sunday, and said week 28 or week 29), but this one seems not to be more current than that.

Having watched it for a while (sorry, didn't realise other people hadn't found it), it seems like they don't tell you how many cases if there are less than three. ie all grey areas don't show anything, so there might be one or two. Once it hits three, it goes a light blue, and you then get three or four or five or whatever, up until 10, when it goes a darker blue.

@bimkom

Note the map is for last week - ie 1st August to 7th August. They tell you at the top how out of date it is. It used to be that it was a week and a half out of date (they published on a Thursday for the week ending on a Sunday, and said week 28 or week 29), but this one seems not to be more current than that.

I’m confused - it says this though:

“The data are updated each weekday, and show the latest 7 days for which complete data are available.”

I checked my area a few days ago and there were no cases, checked again yesterday and there were three.

They do carefully colour code it, my area in London was light blue last week (Thursday, on the old system) with three, but I see that has gone now, and is grey, while some other areas have popped up light blue. 6 will still be light blue, so nothing like the 40+ you find for most of the worst areas i lockdown. Once you have looked at your area, zoom out and see where all the colour is, including the places in lockdown. Really gives you a feel.

I don't know if this is correct or not, but someone on another thread the map's being updated daily now

I checked my area a few days ago and there were no cases, checked again yesterday and there were three.

Two options: - (a) there were three detected the day before yesterday (note if in one household, often quite likely if there is one, then others come to light (b) there were two cases before, but because they don't report cases below three, they were not showing, and once the third case came along, it bumped it up to three. I have never seen two or one case in the grey areas, they just show nothing, so I suspect they only start counting at three.

I can't see a map? Am I missing something?

I don't know if this is correct or not, but someone on another thread the map's being updated daily now

That may well be the case. It used to be that it was only updated on a Thursday, so I checked it last Thursday. Having just checked it now because of the thread, I discovered that it is more up to date than it was last Thursday, which suggests they are updating more frequently. Will need to check back tomorrow and see if it is even more up to date, but 1st-7th August is more up to date than it was even last Thursday!

Sorry if this is a stupid question but when I look at the map there are apparently no cases in my area or nearby this week...but when I look at the link the bbc often post ‘see the number of cases in your area’ there are cases.

What am I missing here?

Try that again with the link www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274