Track and Trace

[monkeyblonde]

Forgive me if this has been asked before!

My Y5 son's teacher has tested positive. How does contact tracing work for teachers, as the school no longer manage this? She cannot give contact details to NHS T&T as she will not have them (also possible GDPR issue?). So are we reliant on students doing a LFT/PCR?

The school have not informed us of the +ve test, one of the parents found out. Therefore we would perhaps never have known?

Completely agree with getting on with life but this is a glaring hole in T&T !

We had close contact letters for dd3. They came from primary school. Think they had that many cases in her class the whole class got one. Ds had people in his class and letters only went to those who sit next to them.

@borntobequiet

there must be method in their madness

Not sure where you get that idea from.

Indeed. The plan is very obviously to get all kids infected as soon as possible.

@oldymoudlygaribaldi unfortunately ours isn't as good as yours they say one thing then do the complete opposite and if you dare make a suggestion they look at you like you've two heads. For instance ours is a small one form school with only one pedestrian gate and one double driveway gate last year parents were able to access the site through the double gates and follow a 1 way system but this September they refused to open the gates and parents were herded through the single gate. Some parents were begging and pleading with the school to open the double ones to no avail it was only when it was raised with the chair of governors that the next day the double gates were opened and the one way system reinstated. We are in an area that has very high cases right now so common sense goes a long way.

We've currently got a positive parent doing the school run and huddling up to other parents instead of asking one of those she walks to school with to take her child she's breaching the rules and school just shrugs.

Thankfully we break up soon and slightly early due to inset days although I do think the half term could still be extended.

@glitterelf that sounds really stressful. Thank goodness the governors listened and made a sensible decision. I am grateful that we have a pretty sensible head who does what they can within the tight restrictions that are placed on them by DfE & PHE.

[quote oldymoudlygaribaldi]@glitterelf that sounds really stressful. Thank goodness the governors listened and made a sensible decision. I am grateful that we have a pretty sensible head who does what they can within the tight restrictions that are placed on them by DfE & PHE.[/quote]
I too have to follow the same guidance as a childminder but I can easily adapt and put mitigation's in place. I just feel awful for the staff working in our schools who are not told about cases and being put at risk.

National t&t didn't ask for any contacts. Council t&t interested in where it was caught - school - but asked nothing else

National T&t is just about telling you to isolate in my experience. And they just read a script out in a very bored voice

Also the whole thing is pointless as dd never tested positive on LF but did on pcr. She said everyone has the same thing but as they're testing neg on LF they go to school. It's only the kids that get too ill to go school that get the pcrs I think -- and she didn't even have the official symptoms so a lot of people may not have bothered. I think if kids havent caught it by half term they maybe aren't going to !

@tiddlysquat

National t&t didn't ask for any contacts. Council t&t interested in where it was caught - school - but asked nothing else

National T&t is just about telling you to isolate in my experience. And they just read a script out in a very bored voice

And as almost nobody has to isolate unless ill it’s almost a complete waste of time now

Yes and she was at school for 4 days with a very mild cold (that then turned into a heavy one that she went off for). She wouldn't have been in anyway while she felt so unwell.

T&T and testing seems a total waste of time. Plus I tested negative for a good few days while very unwell (pcr) before getting a positive . For what it costs - it's not delivering or protecting people.

@MissCruellaDeVil

The school will be managing it. However it is only if over a certain number (I think 15) is positive that the bubble will close. Until then LFT and PCR's are the choice of parents.

I dont blame schools at all but you dont have a choice about PCRs if you dont know your child is a close contact