Teacher living with vulnerable person- do I have any rights?

[mcgonagalagain]

I live with a clinically vulnerable person, and I'm due to return to work after Christmas as a teacher in a secondary school, following my maternity leave. I'm worried and so is my family member, do you think it's worth bringing up with the head teacher, do I have any rights?

You should bring it up with your HT certainly, there should be a risk assessment completed.

However, at my school in Scotland, teachers who were shielding we’re back in school “as normal” essentially, in August. Clinically vulnerable pupils were back in August and others have returned after cancer treatment etc throughout the last few months.

It is a scary time and I’m sorry you are facing this.

Our CEV staff were back from September apart from the 4 weeks of November lockdown. Theyll risk assess you as being fine to be in school I expect. It sucks.

Oh my goodness, I did not realise that shielding staff were back working in schools! How have the government justified that it's safe?

I was going to say. I'm a secondary teacher and I AM clinically vulnerable. I'm.sorry, but if any of us have rights to be away from the classroom right now, it's people who are ECV and CV themselves. It's fucking shit. More than fucking shit. But then life is for a huge amount of people right now.

Yes, all our teachers are back in, even if they were shielding. It's horrific. They are so scared, because they are at a huge risk.

At my school teachers who live with shielding family members were also allowed to wfh during the November lockdown, but we seemed to be unusual in that.

I doubt you will have much joy. All members of staff living with CEV/CV family members are back as normal as are all previously shielding staff.

You won’t have any protections. You’ll just have to get on with it and make the appropriate arrangements at home to keep your family member safe

My dh is clinically extremely vulnerable. During the first lockdown my school kept me at home, the vast majority of pupils weren't in school, so I was responsible for home learning, weekly phone calls etc
It was made clear I'd have to return at the end of August and sadly my dh had to move out the day before I went back. We've now been living apart for 4 months.
It's truly shit

It's worth having the conversation. As much as I hate to see our teachers leave the schools, and they have left in droves since my DD went back in September, there are always online teaching jobs for the many who are now home schooling.

I'm 37 weeks pregnant and have been working as normal since August. Our ECV staff and those with ECV family are all back, no shielding at all here.

It’s pretty shocking, mcgonagalagain

People don’t realise this, especially people who worked in offices and now WFH. Our health, and that of our families, are of no concern to the government. I am sorry.

No you have no special rights, no exceptions all teaching staff back in.