Pasta,
I am married to someone who is responsible for setting this up for a 3000+ strong educational setting on multiple sites.
They need, according to the calculation given in the guidance, up to 36 full time staff, all of whom must be unpaid (as it has been made clear that there is no additional money. on questioning within the select committee) and must be available on demand for 7 days of work. All must either have DBS OR there must be a member of staff with DBS present (but safe) in every testing room to oversee all non-DBSed adults.
The government has not communicated how many tests per day they will be given, whether they will indeed come with the appropriate PPE and whether costs will be reimbursed.
At least 3 large rooms within the sites must be available, all must have non-porous floors, and all must have space for queueing and for processing tests, as well as students waiting for results, because obviously it would be very hard - and would create a huge number of new close contacts - if tested students who could be positive are released out into the site before their results are complete. As every single room on the sites is in full time use, in order to reduce group sizes (they take Covid security seriously, with 2m boxes for staff and limited numbers per room) the timetables have to be changed.
Luckily, the head has decided that this is obviously ludicrous and has refused to do any work on it until after 4th January / whenever the number of tests per day per setting is released, whichever is later. Otherwise DH, rather than having the first days off since March (and i include all weekends, as he is in charge of contact tracing so spends weekends doing that), would have spent the Christmas break sorting everything out.