The Thirty-Sixth Republic - New Year approaching, no clear idea of what is happening next week and has Gav been sacked yet?

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Eating disorders are now being blamed on lockdown.

FFS , at what point does responsibility get put on parents for what happened during lockdown.

Notwithstanding, ED are far more likely to be triggered in high achieving teenage girls by the uncertainty over exams and by repeated 10 day isolations.

ED are a rising issue in society : the success focused education system is a trigger for some of them and that is what needs to change.

Itsiggig- they didn't even check with me. I just booked a test online and drove through. I'll be doing it for every single cold / headache etc. Because the kids won't be!

What about tier 5? Do we think that's a real thing? Could that be schools online?

The NE had a 'bolt on' in September which was effective (for that variant) but thoroughly depressing. It was a kind of tier 3.5. In fact going to to tier 3 was more relaxing for us!

Toddler has spots ffs. No idea why or where from. Not been to nursery since the 17th and we've only seen GPs in the park. He's had Cp and SF. Might explain super naps and clinginess for last few days. He gave ds1 and me a cold which we got tested for and quickly recovered from; he's had perma snot since.

MPs getting an extra week's holiday means they will be free to volunteer do the mass testing. All hands on deck, right?

Deffo. Need Gav to get stuck in.

My niece has an ED, which developed over lockdown. Her mum knew about it all summer, as she was negotiating that she needed to eat 2 small meals every day, but it took a phone call from school before she phoned the doctor. DN had lost over 2.5 stone, and is now a size 6. She's waiting for cahms to get in touch to offer any help, after an urgent referral in September.

(Of course I'm now googling Covid rash in toddlers 🙄)

Sorry ms Awesome, cross post. Sorry to hear about your niece.

CAMHS is a massive part of the hold up : never acknowledged on any thread ; totally glossed over.

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FFS , at what point does responsibility get put onparentsfor what happened during lockdown.

Never. That would be criticising the parenting skills of others and, for some reason, no-one is allowed to do that unless said parent is having their child removed. In that situation, everyone can pile on.

Our society would be much stronger if we were able to talk openly about parenting without everyone feeling so insecure.

Absolutely Iam.

Just posted on numbers thread:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachmentdata/file/948152/TechnicallBriefingVOC202012-22Briefing22_FINAL.pdf

Poster (a cell researcher I think) commented:

"Two things strike me:

1. figure 4. many more 0-9 year olds infected with new variant over the last few months versus the older variants (~125% more). Whereas there doesn’t seem to be such a striking difference for other age groups (~80-100% more, est. from graphs). ( note different x axis scales)

2. secondary attack rate for new variant is 15.1% for new variant versus 9.8% for older variants. They don’t provide stats on whether this is significant.

Obviously, this is still very preliminary. Interestingly, neither of these points are brought up in the summary."

Jingling yes of course re resources. Send me your email address and I’ll send.

ED are a rising issue in society : the success focused education system is a trigger for some of them and that is what needs to change.

I'm completely with you on this. I had a 9 year old in mainstream primary who seemed to be starting to get an ED about 17 years ago. She was an extreme perfectionist at school and I could see that the way secondary is designed could be far too pressured for her. Although, back then, it was possibly more relaxed than now.

The rest of the class were a hilarious ruffian rabble, perfection was the least of their concerns, which was probably quite good for her. She was well liked. I often think if her as I also started to pick up towards the end of the year that her family weren't exactly on the right side of the law. I left after that year so no idea how she did thereafter.

Mrs I’m sorry to hear that.

If niece’s family can afford it, I’d definitely recommend going private re therapy. There’s such a long wait on the nhs and unfortunately the longer disordered eating has to embed, the harder it is to shift.

We’ve have a number of children sectioned over the past 12 months because it was so severe - whilst obviously they had been offered some intervention before that, had it happened earlier, I have no doubt it could have been better controlled.

Just came up on Twitter (I was still in the broom cupboard!) - www.tes.com/news/exclusive-new-school-opening-delay-agreed-ministers

Just talking about schools on BBC. Lots of 'hopefully' 'apparently ' 'we hope'. Also the head that delivered our professionalism training in Sept was on, saying how they've not been able to recruit enough volunteers to carry out testing. Surprising that!

I need to really think about next week. Ds will be home, I'm online training for 3 days and dd in school all week. Annoyingly I can't get hold of tutor or uni to chat through my options for extensions / delaying my return.

Read gravity's post everyone!

One week. Wow. that will really show that virus who's boss.

They're ploughing ahead with the mass testing.

God knows what will happen when it fails to be implemented within a week. More delays, or a 'fuck it, let them in anyway'?

Interesting Gravity

I’m not sure filteringY11 in a few at a time will give them a very solid learning provision. Other than that, delaying is sensible.

Unfortunately they can't afford private therapy smile. They are on FSM now after their mum lost her job during lockdown (she worked in hospitality). I would offer to pay for it myself, but I can't afford it either.

So, the new ‘leaked’ plan is that instead of 5/7 secondary year groups doing remote learning for one week, 7/7 will.

Then, everyone back to normal. Yes?

Cases of infection have held steady here through the holidays, despite secondary being online only for the last week of term and key worker kids only in for the last few days of primary. Some would use that to argue that schools aren't driving the infections. I'm personally just awaiting the fall out of increase in cases when they go back, whenever that will be.

I guarantee that SLT at my college are currently scrabbling to find the loophole to let them stay open to all students that week...

Is this a delay to stall until they have more data about the impact Christmas has had on cases etc? Easier to keep them at home rather than have them in and out from a government PR point of view.