School did Lateral Flow Test but not heard result

[Lettitbee]

DS is in year 10. He had to go into school at a set time to do a Covid test under supervision. This was at 3pm but I've not heard the results. I did find an email in my junk box saying that a test had been registered with my son's name, but nothing else.

Have other parents had results sent to them?

I’ve only just received my test result. There slow today due to the amount of people using the system.

My son did his LFT today at 1pm & I have just received a text with the results 10-15 minutes ago.

My kids school is only contacting us if the result is positive

I got ds results 20 min ago. His was done at 10am,

Which if God forbid he was positive. He would have mixed with 180 on his bubble potentially transmitting. Likewise if someone else had it. So seems pretty pointless tbh

I may be wrong, but I think the school know the results straight away and would have called parents immediately if the result was positive. I think the school then log results which you are then told.

My school policy is to call pupils (or their parents) who test positive (none did) so hopefully ‘no news is good news’.

Lateral flow results are available in 30 mins. The school my DH is helping at keep the kids socially distanced right through till they get the results. I would imagine a +ve result would result in a phone call to you to come and get him PDQ. So no news has to be good news.

I wouldn't worry, if it was positive or void, they would have called you straight away.

I've been doing testing at our school, speed of results depends on how many people we have working on results recording and whether the govt website is working. One day last week we had 6/7 hour delay due to lack of staff and a big backlog, at 6pm we were still recording results from mid day. On another day the govt website went down. So instead of results being recorded and sent individually when they were ready, we had to wait until we had 100 on a spreadsheet and do a bulk upload to somewhere. I don't know what the delay was then but we were telling kids it could possibly be the evening or even next day before results arrived as we just didn't have a timescale. However, any test that came up positive or void was phoned straight away.

It’s just the registered result that’s taking time to come through. They know within half an hour (but usually much sooner!) whether the result is positive and would have contacted you when the lines came up (like a pregnancy test!).

@KettleWentBang

Which if God forbid he was positive. He would have mixed with 180 on his bubble potentially transmitting. Likewise if someone else had it. So seems pretty pointless tbh

The school would have had the result within 30 minutes and he shouldn't have mixed with his bubble in that time.

It's just the communicating the result with you that has just taken time. Had it been positive, you would have known by 11am.

Dd was tested at school this morning, no result received by text or email but school have assured her that they’d have tracked her down and sent her home if it was positive (she’s 18 so I am not involved!).

Thanks for the replies. He didn't mix with anyone, they all just went in for the test (no lessons today) then came home with no mixing. An email saying his test was negative arrived at about 8.30pm, think the system must have been overloaded.

We had an email from our school nurse this morning saying that the NHS technology for the notifications had gone down so we probably wouldn't hear on our phones but that they would send someone to our classrooms immediately if we were positive.