Do a school have a legal responsibility to pass on info to police if aware parents being unlawful with covid rules?

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If a school are made aware of parents clearly and obviously behaving in a way that’s against the law with regards to covid (I don’t just mean against guidance, I mean the law at that time eg going out to indoor public spaces unnecessarily during self isolation. I pick one example here but have many school have been informed of) do they have a legal obligation to pass this to the police? Is this something other people have heard schools of doing?

Whilst I’m here, if a school are not following the rules eg not sending home a child with any of the main 3 symptoms, is there someone that is the next port of call to contact so they can investigate the school?

Fwiw I am not the person behaving illegally!

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If a school are made aware of parents clearly and obviously behaving in a way that’s against the law with regards to covid (I don’t just mean against guidance, I mean the law at that time eg going out to indoor public spaces unnecessarily during self isolation. I pick one example here but have many school have been informed of) do they have a legal obligation to pass this to the police? Is this something other people have heard schools of doing?

Whilst I’m here, if a school are not following the rules eg not sending home a child with any of the main 3 symptoms, is there someone that is the next port of call to contact so they can investigate the school?

Fwiw I am not the person behaving illegally!

Doubtful

It's a very poorly kept secret that one family organised a party for their third year secondary kid in Half term. It was attended by 60 kids, mainly from our school but a fair few from the other local secondary.
It was discussed all across their year group WhatsApp and photos were shared on whatsapp, Instagram and Snapchat.

As a result, 28% of the year group were off within a week of going back. It's been spreading throughout ever since to the point they've had to ask year groups to work at home as they don't have enough staff.

School knows about it. Parents whose kids didn't go or from other year groups all know and have been discussing it online in various degrees of annoyance and downright anger. There have been calls for school to exclude the main child. DD said people have been off with those who went.
School have not said a word. They've not acknowledged it. There was one "please may we remind you it is against the law to allow your child(ren) to mix outside of school, this is to prevent the spread of the virus and could mean a £10,000 fine". But that was it.

Although, I know one of the Queen Bee mum's reported it to the police and had screen shot the pictures and police have done nothing as she has now raised a complaint with the police standards authority.
Do I think school should step? Difficult one. It's not up to them to police parents or what goes on outside of school and put of uniform.

[quote Walkaround]@JingsMahBucket - you wrote all this but don’t explain why this is not being reported to the police by the other parents?[/quote]
Because people may still see it as being linked to social services, which schools are part of that loop. From there, the school would be the reporting body, not necessarily individuals. I’m not saying that’s what I would do or not but more so pointing out the mental model under which most people are working.

@JingsMahBucket - you clearly do not understand the pressure social services are under if you think they will be interested in the behaviour of scores of parents who have never previously raised any safeguarding concerns. School may appreciate the warning that lots of parents are ignoring the rules, but I think it phenomenally unlikely this would trigger a referral to social services. Parents can also report to social services if they think there is a genuine safeguarding issue involved in parents not self-isolating properly.

Basically, people should stop trying to pass the buck to schools - if they know a criminal offence has been committed, they know who they should report it to. Schools are not the police. It’s not even an easy mistake to make!

@Walkaround read my words again. I’m not saying that people would or should report to actual social services. I’m saying that people see schools as part of the social services/reporting loop, hence why they would report to school first before going to the police individually. This is how people have been trained to handle domestic issues for decades. That behaviour pattern isn’t going to just automatically change in the last 9 months of a pandemic. They still see schools and teachers as the first port of call.

@JingsMahBucket - and read my words. The school may appreciate a heads up that rules may have been broken, but it is not the police, so why would a parent report a crime to a school and not bother to tell the police?!

Why expect a school to do what you are unwilling to do yourself, when you claim you know a crime has been committed? In what way is this credible?

No of course schools can't and won't do that.