Covid test

[Tumblebugsjump]

Hi
Our school is right next to a covid testing centre with plenty of availability. This is relevant. If a pupils parent said they had covid symptoms, would you insist that their child had a test and would the school provide the test by dropping it around to the parents house. Asking for a friend if this is standard practice for a primary school. Dosen't add up to me. Thanks

You mean the parent or the pupil were said to have symptoms?

Yes seems rather unlikely that school would give out a test if test centre next door (presuming parent usually brings child to school.

The parent, the pupil had no symptoms. Yes the parent normally takes the child to school. Dosen't make sense does it?!

Also the child has no symptoms so gov and Nhs guidance is no test required, but for the household to isolate. Do some schools insist on a test anyway?

Certainly doesn't add up! Why would someone say this?

@Tumblebugsjump

Also the child has no symptoms so gov and Nhs guidance is no test required, but for the household to isolate. Do some schools insist on a test anyway?

You (general you) can’t get out of isolation with a negative test.

PP is correct that if the Parent tests positive then the household including presumably the child would isolate.

The child would only need a test if they have symptoms and if positive all contacts within previous 48 hours of symptoms or positive test would then need to isolate and the school bubble would potentially burst.

Some Schools only isolate close contacts and not whole bubble, how old is the child?

Schools can’t insist on a test but can exclude the child if for example obvious symptoms and the parent tries to drop them off at school.

As long as the child isolates that would be within the guidance although have heard some saying in your scenario child should test to pick up asymptomatic cases.

You can get out of isolating if you have a negative test if you are a teacher or a student/pupil who is a contact of a positive.

If a pupil's parent has symptoms then THEY must get a test and the child should not attend school for 10 days OR until the parent gets a negative test result.

We have sorted out a test for a parent who was having difficulties - this was one of our vulnerable families with a parent unable to access testing unassisted due to being illiterate.

We have provided tests where the pupil has symptoms.

Schools should not be testing pupils with symptoms either.

@Newrumpus

Schools should not be testing pupils with symptoms either.

Which is why we PROVIDED a test.

We GIVE a test kit to the parent who takes it home, registers it, performs the test and posts it off. They then inform us when the receive the result.

@Newrumpus

You can get out of isolating if you have a negative test if you are a teacher or a student/pupil who is a contact of a positive.

@Newrumpus

This isn’t true?

If you are a contact of a confirmed positive case then by law you must isolate for ten days?

Unless you are a teacher or pupil. Then you can either isolate or do a lateral flow test. Following a recent u-turn this will change next week.

LFT are not suitable for those with symptoms.

If you are a contact of a confirmed positive case you must by law self isolate!!

Lateral Flow Tests do not cancel isolation !!

Who has told you this dangerously inaccurate information??

@Newrumpus

I have reported your post @Newrumpus

That is the whole point of in-school testing! So that pupils do not have to isolate if they test negative. This is the decision that Williamson has U-turned on today. T’is the truth.

If you put your hand up you can tell the teacher.

That is a totally different situation though

Lateral Flow picks up cases without symptoms and if positive needs to be confirmed by a PCR Test

Some people reading your posts might go to a community testing centre and get a LF Test result of negative and then not isolate

LF Tests are not very accurate

But they have been used to try and pick up some asymptomatic cases

Not to cancel the need for self isolation FFS

@Newrumpus

If you put your hand up you can tell the teacher.

In schools they are or were being used to prevent pupils from having to isolate after they have been identified as a contact of a positive case. The fact that they are not accurate doesn’t alter this. This is why there has been a fuss and a campaign and this is why the government has done a u-turn on this decision.

After this week, they will be used to pick up asymptomatic cases only. But, whether you like it or not, they have been used to prevent students, pupils and teachers from having to isolate. That was the whole point of the fuss of the last few weeks.

@Newrumpus

In schools they are or were being used to prevent pupils from having to isolate after they have been identified as a contact of a positive case. The fact that they are not accurate doesn’t alter this. This is why there has been a fuss and a campaign and this is why the government has done a u-turn on this decision.

After this week, they will be used to pick up asymptomatic cases only. But, whether you like it or not, they have been used to prevent students, pupils and teachers from having to isolate. That was the whole point of the fuss of the last few weeks.

The Guardian newspaper has revealed that the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) told the Department of Health and Social Care on 12 January that it had not approved lateral flow kits for daily contact testing because of concerns that they give people false reassurance if they are negative. This could lead to pupils staying in school and potentially spreading the virus when they should be self-isolating.

Apologies @Newrumpus just looked this up and found the above.

You couldn’t make this up, I mean really !!!