This is interesting to look at re school closures

[Sausagessizzling]

www.schoolcovidmap.org.uk

Tells you the case rate in area of school catchment. May be useful for school staff/parents deciding what to do.

Thanks, it's very useful. My two are off until 18th anyway thankfully (465 for one 670 for the other). These are scary numbers - some on here 800+

[quote CoffeeCreamandSugar]Please check here instead

coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/interactive-map[/quote]
That crashes everytime I try to use it. It's bloody annoying.

1018 per 100k I'm in London so will only be with critical worker and vulnerable children

The school nearest to our house has a rate of 845, London borough (different borough to the one I live in) so closed. My daughters primary 2.3 miles away is in Spelthorne with a rate of 739.

DD1’s secondary, rate of 640, London borough so online for2 weeks.

It doesn’t make sense to me, in a conurbation to be treating areas so differently.

@Skyr2

140/100,000 here so 0.14% that’s risen from 0.01%. That is why you should not shut ‘all schools’ the risk differs immensely. The disadvantages to shutting all schools outweighs the advantages IMO. If rates are very high and rising that is a different matter - I but should not be a blanket shut all schools.

Remember that the vast majority of those who contract COVID are not seriously ill, we need perspective.
People who have CEV in immediate family should be allowed to choose not go if they consider that too high a risk., but that should not impact the rest of the school population.

I honestly think that they probably need to vaccinate all teachers sooner rather than later so that removes the argument about it being too risky.. I have CEV close relatives and have not visited them since March - you make your choices ! I would rather that and schools remain open.

And for the PARENTS that are vulnerable??

There's a poster whose DH is currently in Covid ICU, he has serious health issues. . Their family has isolated since March. Their Y7 DD has had to go to school. Their y7 daughter is distraught that she most likely the one who has passed it onto her Dad.

Do you seriously think that's not much more damaging to her than being out of school gir a bit? She can catch up on education, you can't undo the psychological damage already done, let alone if he gets any worse.

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Vaccinate the teachers. At least they will then have some degree of protection.

Figures for transmission amongst teenagers are high, so they are probably going to catch it whether they are in school or not - huddling together in big groups. If they are anything like I was at that age, you don't think beyond tomorrow that alone what might happen in the weeks and months to come. Ultimately, it's today's teenagers who will suffer long-term from all this. They are the ones who won't be able to get work because so many entry level jobs in shops, factories and hospitality will have gone. It certainly won't be their grandparents who are first in the queue for the vaccine and sitting at home on a comfortable state pension. I know, my mum is one.

Mine is over 1500!

Not hugely helpful as it shows less than the map of the government dashboard does zoomed in.
For example - our school catchment is in the high 200s but only a third of the pupils are from that area, the school is largely filled by pupils from the other side of a main road, where the rates are over 400 (not shown on this tool).

@Sausagessizzling Thanks, thats really helpful.

345 which isn't anywhere near as high as some places but it was only 176 days ago.

Whoa. 1194 per 100,000

And to think, up until Friday, the government was telling my borough to open as normal.

178 here. Just gone from T1, to T2, to T3 in a matter of weeks.

Thanks. My tier 4 area has relatively low rates, but it’s increased by 50% on last week. It’s the increase that’s the worry.

My Local Primary which is opening tomorrow is 569/100000

Warning: Do check the area they're saying the school is in.

I've just looked up my old primary up north. It's one of 2 in the village, albeit to the north of the village. For some reason it hasn't given the village cases. It hasn't even given the next town cases, which would be reasonable, it's given 2 villages away!

There doesn't seem to be a way to contact them either to let them correct that, other than for data protection issues. If anyone can spot that, let me know and I'll contact them.

Also of note the colouring could really do with being updated too, if they're reading this, the highest colouring is >45/100k which is all areas currently, so pretty useless.

Mine is over 200, but that equates to 12 cases so in reality isn't hugely significant.

Seven days to 28 December 2020
Total cases
61
The rate has increased relative to the previous week.17 (38.6%)
Rolling rate
682.9

The 61 cases wasnt for my town but my locality within the town, that is quite worrying

My DD works in education and said at the end of the term there was a massive spike in cases at the local secondary school. The primarys and nurserys are all open tomorrow.

Very interesting. 916 here. We have an INSET day, no kids, secondary.

Just over 824 per 100k, all schools closed and tier 4.

254 here, increase of 1 since last week. Mine will be going in if it's open, but one local academy trust has already decided to shut all its primary schools in defiance of the government. We are tier 4 but not near any of the areas where primaries are already closed.

Admittedly we are at a fee paying school, but a couple of DC we know have been "attending" online for the past few months because they have a vulnerable family member.

Here is another, albeit out of date, indicator of how things are going in your local area. I think it is split down into local election wards, but you can set the radius up to miles away from your postcode:
digital.nhs.uk/dashboards/coronavirus-in-your-area

So many of these numbers - 500-1200/100,000 are the numbers large areas of the north had continually from sept to Dec and schools stayed open throughout so not sure why all the shock now 🤷‍♀️

Blackburn had cases over 1500/100,000 for weeks and no one suggested closing schools

Figures for transmission amongst teenagers are high, so they are probably going to catch it whether they are in school or not - huddling together in big groups. If they are anything like I was at that age, you don't think beyond tomorrow that alone what might happen in the weeks and months to come

Not all teenagers are being daft, in fact I've seen them round our town standing talking in the park and socially distancing. They seem to be more sensible than the adults crowding into the shops and pubs, the shopping centre car park was full and people were looking for spaces when I drove past last time.

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