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If someone in your household has tested positive....

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PerditaMacleod · 27/08/2021 13:21

the need for other family members to isolate has been removed. In this scenario, would you be sending your children back to school next week? Although it's allowed under the rules, it doesn't seem right?! Surely it's going to spread like wildfire, but I guess that's what the govt is going for now?

Interested to see if anyone will be keeping their DC at home if only parent(s) are infected.

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motherrunner · 27/08/2021 13:31

If my family test positive I will be going into work and so will every other teacher who has positive family members. We haven’t been told to stay home. If DH and I test positive my children will go to school. That is now what is expected from my employers (ie the Government).

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PerditaMacleod · 27/08/2021 13:49

I would too, motherrunner.

Just feels a bit naughty! Like I have to hide from school/nursery that me and DH are positive. But I don't, because the rules say that the DC don't need to isolate.

We wouldn't dream of seeing people socially while there is a positive case in the house but it's fine to go to work/school, the mind boggles

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ElizaDoolots · 27/08/2021 13:51

I agree, it doesn’t feel right. If I tested positive, I would feel awful sending my child to nursery when they’re almost guaranteed to pass it onto the staff and the other children.

BluebellsGreenbells · 27/08/2021 13:52

I think the government need to be honest and say

If you have a positive case in the home then you missy referring from mixing with anyone outside the home other than work or shopping.

Avoid those deemed vulnerable.

I would also go so far to say wear a mask in crowed situations.

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PerditaMacleod · 27/08/2021 14:03

I'm not sure it's necessary for the govt to suggest that you don't mix socially. We're social pariahs, none of our friends have come near us since I tested positive a week ago! Grin Understandably - I would do the same.

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Abraxan · 27/08/2021 14:03

Interested to see if anyone will be keeping their DC at home if only parent(s) are infected.

I guess this will depend on if the children can get to school without the infected parent needing to leave the house.
If they can't, then the children will need to stay home.

Unicornhorns · 27/08/2021 14:09

DD1 would work from home - she’s very happy to not go into her office.
DD2 would go to school - sixth form large comp.
DS would stay home. He goes to an SEN school with 40 children, travels in a taxi with children from two other year groups- he would undoubtedly pass it on and it would have a huge impact on such a tiny school.

Spongeboob · 27/08/2021 14:14

@Abraxan

Interested to see if anyone will be keeping their DC at home if only parent(s) are infected.

I guess this will depend on if the children can get to school without the infected parent needing to leave the house.
If they can't, then the children will need to stay home.

I was wondering the same. Single parent. If I go down with it DC wouldn't be able to go to school.
SheWoreYellow · 27/08/2021 14:16

In Scotland the rest of the family needs a negative pcr to not have to isolate in this situation which seems like a reasonable compromise.
I’d be LFTing at the very least though.

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PerditaMacleod · 27/08/2021 14:18

Yes, we have been doing LFTs, SheWoreYellow. DC are only 4 and 2, DD is fine with it but the little one runs away and screams his head off when we try to do his Sad.

If they are positive we want to know ASAP so that the 10 days will be over ASAP!! Looks like poor DD is going to miss the beginning of Reception Sad

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Sillysop92 · 27/08/2021 14:24

If anyone tests positive in our house, I will still have to work - TA, unless instructed otherwise and my kids will still go to their jbs and school. There may not be a choice to do the “right” thing.

MargosKaftan · 27/08/2021 14:27

Its annoying as if I have to stay off work due to dcs having covid and being off, it'll now be unpaid leave rather than before if our household had to isolate, my employer would pay me as if I was sick. I fully expect my kids to catch it now it's not going to be "free" to be stuck at home for 10 days with them.

Still, at least I'm only risking being off if my child is actually sick rather than the time in last term when we were at home when someone in dc1s class was sick and his tests came back negative.

2boysand1princess · 27/08/2021 14:27

The DC and I spent all day yesterday on an outdoor trip with my sister and her kids. Half way through she told me that her husband had covid symptoms and was awaiting pcr results. I felt so angry and overwhelmed with emotions, that I cannot still describe how it’s made me feel. I have a baby who is 1 and I’m so worried for her.
Yesterday i was feeling angry and disappointed with my sister as well as how the isolation rules have been dropped, but today I’m feeling a mixture of “baby’s bound to catch it sooner or later” and “it’s my fault, not my sisters as I knew the potential risks of mixing with others”

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PerditaMacleod · 27/08/2021 14:29

I wouldn't say it's your fault @2boysand1princess, I'd be furious if someone didn't tell me before putting themself in close contact!

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Seagullsstopit · 27/08/2021 14:30

I'm positive right now, no one in my house has had a positive pcr back and so are allowed to go about their business
HOWEVER We have 2 adults with learning disabilities in the house so we have made sure they haven't gone to their clubs as there are a lot of CEV people there.
I feel in our case it's better to be cautious

DumplingsAndStew · 27/08/2021 14:49

If someone in my house tests positive, I plan for us all to isolate as we would before. I know DC2s school would be accepting of that, I'm not sure what the situation would be with DC1s college. They are only in one day per week just now, so it could be doable, even if it means losing their EMA that week or fortnight.

MargosKaftan · 27/08/2021 16:52

See, its easy if everyone in your household can work from home so it's really a question of -will you send the dcs into school and get your food delivered? - but if you work outside the home, if someone can stay home with the dc, what is your reason for being off work?

If your employer lets you do this, will it be unpaid leave, not sick leave (I was paid for the time I had to be off last year waiting for dds test results to come back- thankfully negative- but was counted as sick leave as I wasn't allowed in work). We don't need my wage, so it'll be annoying, not the end of the world to lose just over a weeks wage, but many people can't afford that.

flowerycurtain · 27/08/2021 16:56

Our school guidance has come out saying of someone in the house is positive you have to stay home until negative pcr test.

SilverGlitterBaubles · 27/08/2021 17:10

The thing is if the PCR test is done by close contacts too early it might not pick up the infection. This should either be followed up a few days later or daily LFTs at least.

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PerditaMacleod · 27/08/2021 17:20

Yes, agree that it's a bit pointless...I was positive last Friday, and we all did a PCR on Saturday - mine was the only positive one. They've all done LFTs every day since then, and all have been negative, until DH's yesterday. So they've all been going about their business, and if school had been on, they would have been there. They had negative PCRs but could have it asymptomatically by now.

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Shieldingending · 27/08/2021 17:51

I’m a teacher in a special school where some children are vulnerable (as am I) If anyone in my house tests positive I have to go to work…. We are in very close contact with our children at school, if I was a parent I wouldn’t want someone from a house with a covid positive person teaching my child

m0therofdragons · 27/08/2021 17:56

I can’t go into work if there’s a positive person in my household (I work in a hospital and old rules apply). Re dc and school - I’d discuss with the school and do whatever they ask me to do.

toomuchlaundry · 27/08/2021 17:59

Will parents/staff tell school if their is a positive case in the household? I know legally you don’t have to but would you anyway. I think I would

QuarantineQueen · 27/08/2021 18:13

I'm a CEV teacher. No clue if the vaccine has worked for me but I guess I'll be finding out pretty quickly once term starts! Yes, it is going to spread very quickly without household isolation and no measures to contain it.

motherrunner · 27/08/2021 18:14

@flowerycurtain

Our school guidance has come out saying of someone in the house is positive you have to stay home until negative pcr test.
I’m a secondary teacher and haven’t received such guidance. Have your school just made that decision?
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