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Our school has decided that staff working at home for the time being must change their work voicemail to give their personal mobile details to any parent etc who needs to get in touch. I know these are extraordinary times am I overthinking worrying about this?

We've told parents that the calls will come from withheld numbers

In all of this we can only do what we can do. We know we need to find a balance between "enough" and too much and that if we get it wrong we'll lose them altogether. We also know that the families who need us most are the least likely to answer(withheld number or not), but we still need to safeguard staff

NO!

Academy chain by any chance?

Email should be enough.

Echt, no they don't. For a start where do you think all these phones schools will suddenly want to buy are? Companies wanting to set up homeworking can't get the tech they need either. It's fine for teachers to use their own phones, they just need to withhold the number

That's my point. It's about using the teacher's property, their phone bill, etc. Completely out of order. Would be a different matter if it could be claimed back on tax.

Tax relief can be claimed if you're actually out of pocket but most people's contacts include calls now? Plus everyone working at home is saving travel costs. Thousands of people have lost their entire livelihood and teachers are going to complain about the cost of a few calls?

Not a chance in hell that I would give out ANY personal contact details! Parents have access to online platforms if they wish to contact me (my school uses SeeSaw) and that's frankly been enough to deal with this week (I've been inundated with messages since Wednesday and I honestly can't keep up...I've said I would respond weekdays between 8am and 5pm, but outside those hours I am on family time).

OP just say NO!!

Thousands of people have lost their entire livelihood and teachers are going to complain about the cost of a few calls

Oh look, a windmill.

This just through from NASUWT:

No way.

Unbelievable that the union needed to even have to say that.

As above, NASUWT are quite clear this should not happen under any circumstance.
www.nasuwt.org.uk/advice/health-safety/coronavirus-guidance/operational-advice-during-partial-school-closures.html?utm_source=Scotland+all+Mar+2020&utm_campaign=7345e54e47-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_03_22_09_32_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c1a3b7cfc1-7345e54e47-172164285