Can kids in households with Covid still go to school?

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When schools were last open, did you realise DC in households with Covid could still go to school without the school knowing?

Will this still be the case come 8th March, does anyone know?

I realised this before Christmas, when the mother of a child in DS's class tested positive for covid. DS's friend was kept home for two days then sent back to school to mix with all the other DC.

I asked the school what happens if a parent gets covid and they said that Track and Trace only gets in contact with direct contacts of the person with Covid, so if a child hadn't had a positive test, then they won't be informed.

At the time, you could only ask for a test if you had symptoms. The child had no symptoms and parents not prepared to lie to get one. So they sent the child into school, and did not inform the school there was covid at home.

School said nothing they could do as they had not been informed a child had covid. But surely he could have just been symptomless and still have it!

Is this how it works elsewhere? Does Track and Trace not advise to keep DC home if parents have it? Why don't they tell the schools if there's a child in a house with covid? Can we get tests without having to have symptoms now?

I am in a higher risk group (but haven't yet been called for a vaccine).

I'm desperate for the DC to get back to normality but I feel like I'm being asked to risk my life to facilitate this.

It’s nothing to do with T&T and everything to do with the parents being halfwits. If anyone in your household tests positive, the household is required to all self isolate. If you are looking at doing something about it, report the halfwits to the police for breaking COVID rules. Not the school - they can’t actually do anything and rely on honesty from parents.

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The parents would of been told that household members had to Isolate , maybe someone should of told track and trace And our school would of sent pupil home if they found this out and always were telling and reminding if the rules .

I assumed DS's school would too, but they weren't interested in hearing about which child was potentially bringing covid into the school, their attitude was, if we've not been told officially, there's nothing we can do about it.

Also, they haven't been constantly reminding people of the rules. I think they should be.

Never mind Reminding parents of the rules, our school explicitly told me to do the opposite of the rules fastwigglylines

This happened at our school, and when parents complained, they were told that the school couldn't do anything and that they should contact the police if they wanted more action taken.
I don't think it's that the school doesn't care, it's just that they cannot control the actions of parents. We have regular emails from the school outlining the rules, but some people are just selfish fuckers

If people are sending their child in if there is a positive case at home, an email from school won't stop them!

For families like this they are more likely to lie about children going to school so that they were never informed. The system relies on trust. It is likely that there are lots of contacts that are never contacted as people have been secretly meeting people they shouldn't be.

Your OP makes it sound like this was allowed. It wasn’t. Track and trade clearly tell you you are legally bound to ensure the children remain in quarantine. I agree that going forward schools should be informed though, as clearly lots broke this rule.

It’s not good but can i just say-as someone upthread said about kids being collected from school because a parent has tested positive-they haven’t necessarily done anything wrong-remember most keyworkers in healthcare will be having at least one test a week, so may be sending their dc in “whilst waiting for results of a test”.

I would be unviable for keyworker children to have to isolate in that case as for mine that would mean only be in school mon-wed only! Some keyworkers have more than one test a week so they’d potentially never be at school!

People knowing sending their kids in while they have symptoms and awaiting test results is obviously a different matter and is totally selfish-but just don’t assume that’s the case for everyone.

If a parent tests positive and is selfish enough to break the rules and send their child to school, when the whole household should quarantine, what makes you think they would tell T&T that they had children if they knew school would be told?

It isn’t T&T or school’s fault, the parents should have kept the children in quarantine with them.

Surely - SURELY - we all need to take PERSONAL responsibility for self-isolating ourselves and our households if there has been a Covid risk, with test n trace being a back up.

This happened in a local secondary school before the last lockdown. Parents were positive but sent the kids to school anyway. Kids then became symptomatic. It spread round the kids and teachers so much they had to close the school before Boris announced schools were closing. 1000plus kids. God knows how many went home and spread it to parents before they knew they had it, some of those parents may have gone to work and spread it to colleagues.

So selfish.