School staff ARE more at risk from contracting COVID than the general population- according to data released by the DfE yesterday.

[Feenie]

neu.org.uk/press-releases/impact-covid-school-workforce?fbclid=IwAR2ayf6jFbhEMcpICBffM5daowz8tdrIs77bqyCKFQHWaKB109Z1TktZXEk

Data that contradicts continual assurances that were still being given as late as yesterday by Dr Jenny Harries to the Education Select Committee.

Agree - an absolutely disgusting group and anyone associating themselves with them should have a real hard look at themselves.

I'm in an asn base, all kids in so in full time as normal. Updated risk assessment states increased cleaning, no chance less than before. We have decided to wear masks all the time and luckily our slt support this, however not all staff do and we often work in close contact for long periods of time.
Fortunately our local numbers are falling, woohoo, long may it last 😁

I genuinely would be interested to see how rates compare to police officers, social workers, prison staff ie other professions having closevcontact either for long periods of time or up close with possible spread of bodily fluids, going into people's houses etc often with no or very very basic PPE , as they never seen to get mentioned for priority vaccination. I know there's been an outbreak in my local force linked to a recent prison release (dinner prisons are rife with it) who had to be detained by a number of officers, spat as much as he could at them and the police custody staff. Last I heard they had 8 officers test positive just last week.
My son's nursery haven't had a single case since July last year when they re-opened, maybe they can advise the government on SSOW, they're doing something right!

@HorseOfPhillipMoss

I genuinely would be interested to see how rates compare to police officers, social workers, prison staff ie other professions having closevcontact either for long periods of time or up close with possible spread of bodily fluids, going into people's houses etc often with no or very very basic PPE , as they never seen to get mentioned for priority vaccination. I know there's been an outbreak in my local force linked to a recent prison release (dinner prisons are rife with it) who had to be detained by a number of officers, spat as much as he could at them and the police custody staff. Last I heard they had 8 officers test positive just last week. My son's nursery haven't had a single case since July last year when they re-opened, maybe they can advise the government on SSOW, they're doing something right!

Or maybe they are just lucky.

There are 380,000 female teachers in the UK.
There are 36,400 female police officers in the UK.

This may go some way to explaining why we have a lot more threads about how Covid affects teachers than we do about how it affects police officers.

Mind you, we have a lot more than 10 x the amount!

I genuinely would be interested to see how rates compare to police officers, social workers, prison staff ie other professions having closevcontact either for long periods of time or up close with possible spread of bodily fluids, going into people's houses etc often with no or very very basic PPE , as they never seen to get mentioned for priority vaccination.

You can take social workers off that concern list. Mostly been at home, mostly been scared to come in to schools. All the social workers I know who are at home, have been vaccinated, but are awaiting advice re going back out there, because they can still catch it.

I am pissed off about this.

Coppers, prison officers and early years staff should have been above social workers in the vaccine list.

[quote Feenie]@PrivateHall Can't find one?[/quote]
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4141082-Data-shows-teschers-school-staff-ARE-more-at-risk?msgid=103823131

Here you go. A quick google search brought it up. Apologies for the late reply, have been extremely busy.

@RuleWithAWoodenFoot I work in the same building as a child protection team they've definitely been in and doing home visits, probably only for emergency new referrals though to be fair, DH works in a psychiatric function in a prison and it is grim , whole wings full of Covid

I do hope those stats will take into account holidays and school closures. Eg saying teachers didn't have higher rates of infection and not highlighting the data is from March to September during very limited numbers in school and a six week holiday. Comparing rates among other professions during that time period is clearly bollocks but they have form for doing this. They rarely want to talk about October to January

@PrivateHall

Ahh. So you meant to say 'There was a short thread on this very late last night, Feenie - it had 16 posts.'

Thanks!