Do children get pinged?

ErmieMum · 2021-08-11T15:26:04+00:00

If your child has had to self isolate via track and trace has the ping named then directly? I have been pinged but we know that the contact with covid was some one my daughter saw so wondering why it's me not her been pinged?

JanglyBeads · 11/08/2021 16:29

When you’re pinged it could be because of someone you (unknowingly) followed round a supermarket or whatever, you have no way of knowing who the “positive” was.

Of course children can’t be pinged by the app as you have to be over 16 to use it.

Or are you using “pinged” to mean contacted by Test and Trace by phone/email/text message (for an under 16 that would be via a parent)?

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ErmieMum · 11/08/2021 16:37

Sorry that wasn't clear. We had contact with a family who we met for an hour - the positive case played with my daughter then went home - I had no contact other than being in the house but in different area. Then said friend tested positive this week. The family gave our details to test and trace when talking through their movements so they have now texted me officially to say I need to isolate but just me which seems odd as I didn't see the child really. I assumed the ping was coming and we have stayed in anyway but just think it's odd that my daughter isnt mentioned when she is the actual contact

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TakeYourFinalPosition · 11/08/2021 16:50

“Ping” tends to mean the app, so your title might confuse people here. You’ve been contacted by Track & Trace. They usually do reference the children, if the family gave their details… did they mention your daughter?

It’s possible you’ll get a call/text about her later.

Lazypuppy · 11/08/2021 16:53

I'd be qngry and your family for sayibg your name when you had no contact andnow you have to isolate for 10 days

dementedpixie · 11/08/2021 16:56

Ping = notification from the app
Contact from test and trace is not the same
They were probably given your contact details as your child won't have their own details.

Can you ring the helpline and clarify whether it's just your child that needs to isolate. Did you have any contact with the child that tested positive?

dementedpixie · 11/08/2021 16:58

@Lazypuppy

I'd be qngry and your family for sayibg your name when you had no contact andnow you have to isolate for 10 days

Of course they had to give the parents name if they are dealing with a child. Phone 119 (I think that's the covid helpline) and clarify with them

MissCruellaDeVil · 11/08/2021 16:59

Bring pinged means the app, confusing title, you have been contacted by test and trace. You rightly need to isolate as you was in the same house as a positive contact.

MissCruellaDeVil · 11/08/2021 16:59

Sorry that should be being

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ErmieMum · 11/08/2021 17:02

Sorry clearly haven't got the lingo! I thought the text was a ping! I was just keen to know if children are ever named - as we know the situation this time we can work it out but going forwards if I hit ankotificatin I didn't know whether I would assume that meant my children too (as they are young) or if they would get their own - assume when at school any notification names the children

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Sanch1 · 11/08/2021 17:14

My friend was in this situation a few weeks ago. Even though her and her children hadn't seen my friends son as he'd been in his bedroom test and trace contacted her. They contacted all people that had been in my friends house or garden regardless of if they'd actually met the child that was positive! They called my friend and specified it was to include all that had been in the house, so her and the children. My other friend was fuming that she'd caused her friend to have to isolate when she wasn't a close contact as defined on the gov website.

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ErmieMum · 11/08/2021 17:18

This sounds similar Sanch1 - and also we saw them 3 days before symptoms and 5 days before the positive test which according to official guidelines we are not close contacts - it just feels like they haven't really looked into it...

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Sanch1 · 11/08/2021 17:23

It seems to me like they don't do anything that involves thought or investigation and go down the easiest route. I was there too and as my friend doesn't have my number wasn't contacted. They didn't ask her to get my number as obviously we do have a method of communication!

HalzTangz · 11/08/2021 17:51

@ErmieMum

Sorry that wasn't clear. We had contact with a family who we met for an hour - the positive case played with my daughter then went home - I had no contact other than being in the house but in different area. Then said friend tested positive this week. The family gave our details to test and trace when talking through their movements so they have now texted me officially to say I need to isolate but just me which seems odd as I didn't see the child really. I assumed the ping was coming and we have stayed in anyway but just think it's odd that my daughter isnt mentioned when she is the actual contact

You were contacted because the adult tested positive who you would have been in the same room as, it's nothing to do with the kid or the kid being positive

BoxHedge · 11/08/2021 18:23

When I’ve been texted by test and trace, either my name, or my child’s name, were the first words in the text.

It’s annoying, might be the family’s fault but might be the questions being too general.

I guess you can’t be sure it wasn’t a completely different contact though?

Scottishgirl85 · 11/08/2021 20:08

Yes my 2 year old was named by track and trace as her childminder tested positive. I wasn't named as had not had prolonged contact, just pick up and drop off. It entirely depends on what names the positive case gives to track and trace.