Press conference tonight

[Frozenintime]

Please no delays to the roadmap because of the Brazilian variant

@Lemons1571

I can’t link from my phone. If you put “teacher 333% covid” into google the results come up. I believe the tes got the statistic from the DfE publication back in December.

That figure is from data collected by the teachers union. It was from three councils apparently. Greenwich, Leeds and somewhere else I can't remember.

Anyway the councils themselves have case doubts on the data. Greenwich say they have no involvement at all and know idea where the union got the data. I think it was just teacher questionnaire or something can't remember.

@CuriousaboutSamphire

I'm stealing that...

JVT - at risk of sounding like a parrot

I loved that.

My mum use to say that to us when we asked the same question for the umpteenth time and she was about to give the same answer as many times!

That and telling us we sounded like a stuck record

The 333% figure was the result of FoIs to 3 of the London boroughs with some of the highest Covid infection rates. It is not proper stats and cannot be relied upon or used in the way it has.

We follow the science - except when it suggests something we disagree with

@AnneElliott

The 333% figure was the result of FoIs to 3 of the London boroughs with some of the highest Covid infection rates. It is not proper stats and cannot be relied upon or used in the way it has.

We follow the science - except when it suggests something we disagree with

Agree with above

But also was there new data out today on this?

Just caught it on news something about no increase

Yes the BBC website has an article on it