[quote cronk23]@borntobequiet please tell me how knowing every single case in every school in the U.K. is helpful? I'm genuinely at a loss to understand what this achieves. My Dd school has always kept us informed of any cases and all I need to know is this information. Just looking at the thread on Twitter someone posted and it's littered with corrections because they can't even get the names of the schools right. How can you be sure that random people on the internet are telling the truth? [/quote]
It’s true that knowing about local infections in schools is the most important thing for individuals and communities. The worrying problem is that the national information is being suppressed, which not only impacts on information at the local level, but which makes it difficult to criticise policy decisions on a national scale, such as the removal of the mandate on face masks, which in turn affects individual schools, children and families.
Here’s a relevant passage from the article in the Guardian (which, whether one reads it or not, is a respected newspaper and a generally reliable source):
The focus of their anger concerns the pre-print of a PHE report that included a page of data on the spread of the India Covid-19 variant in schools. But when the report was published on Thursday 13 May, the page had been removed. It was the only one that had been removed from the pre-print. Days later, the government went ahead with its decision to remove the mandate on face coverings in English schools.