When will your Gcse student child go on holiday? Contingency Day

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Same for A level - contingency day is 26th of June. When we found out dd had already booked a holiday, so just gotta hope for the best.
Do you think it's because of Brexit or possibility of the queen dying?

It's not just contingency day but all days up to 26th June. Originally it was just a day but now has been clarified as all days until then. DD's best friend now worried as they've booked a big trip leaving 18th June. Hopefully no changes will be needed. We were told it's because of Grenfell and the Manchester bomb.

This is what we got from out school:

The Joint Council for Qualifications have contingency plans in place should sustained national or local disruption arise during the June 2019 examination series. If your son/daughter is scheduled to take GCSE or A Level examinations in the Summer of 2019, they now have to be available to take examinations up to and including 26 June 2019. Please ensure you child does not book any holidays until after this date.

Clear as mud.

That was back in September, right at the beginning of term.

Didn’t know anything about it. DS will be on Silver DofE expedition in Devon on 26th

I can't remember exactly when our DC's schools notified us, but googling on the subject turned up loads of schools' notifications, invluding this one:

17 October 2018

The Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ: the Exam Boards’ umbrella co-ordinating body) has advised all schools that it has set Wednesday 26th June 2019 as Exam Contingency Day.

So the schools knew a long time ago.

Didn’t know anything about it. DS will be on Silver DofE expedition in Devon on 26th

Slight lack of joined up thinking here, if its something the school has organised?

I'm an Exam Officer, the contingency day was set by the JCQ who are the regulatory body who oversee the exam boards.
The contingency day (CD) was created on the back of awful events such as the Manchester Bombing and Grenfell Tower fire where students terribly affected had to attend their exams the very next day or they wouldn't have received a grade. The intention is to buy such students some breathing space by moving anything affected in the immediate aftermath to the CD. Therefore the papers won't be compromised as all students will complete it at the same time.
The JCQ won't just use this day willy nilly.
Should your child be scheduled to finish on, day June 16, and at that point they're all finished then the CD can be dismissed.
I'm in an International school overseas and my parents cannot understand why they'd be affected. It's taking a LOT of explaining that they've chosen to put their kids in a school that follows English curriculum

Our school originally flagged it as that single day but, as some other posters have said, now says the contingency is for all days up to this one, so sneaky squeezed-in holidays don’t worry either

Also hoping it wont be needed. We have booked to go on holiday, first time being able to afford abroad as we now don't have to go in school holidays

where students terribly affected had to attend their exams the very next day or they wouldn't have received a grade.

God forbid anything like this happened again but if it did, is it just the kids affected or everyone? Must be everyone or else how would they keep them from leaking the answers?

Sorry just read this, where you've already answered my question 🤦‍♀️
where students terribly affected had to attend their exams the very next day or they wouldn't have received a grade.

Wrong quote 😩 It was this one
Therefore the papers won't be compromised as all students will complete it at the same time.