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We have now written (a 17 page letter) to Education Secretary @GavinWilliamson asking him to set out what guidance, and funding, he will give to local authorities who have the duty to make provision for the million poorer kids unable to access education online during lockdown.
I am enormously proud that @GoodLawProject is taking up cudgels on behalf of a huge, and hugely disadvantaged, group of children. But we can't do this vital work without your support. crowdjustice.com/case/no-child-…
Some signs of movement from the DFE (according to the @tes tes.com/news/coronavir…).

Please help us keep the pressure on: we can't leave a million children behind crowdjustice.com/case/no-child-…
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Pretty clear there is a structural under-reporting of the daily Covid-19 deaths in hospital figures. The daily death figures are not those who have died with Covid-19 but those who have died *having tested positive* for Covid-19. gov.uk/guidance/coron…
I don't have data on what proportion of those going into hospital are being tested for Covid-19 but all those I have spoken to say that there is a significant number of those dying in hospital with Covid-19 who were never tested - and so won't appear in the daily death figures.
If Covid-19 is reported on the death certificate of those dying, untested, in hospital with Covid-19 then those deaths will be captured in the (delayed) ONS figures.

But the real question is, how profoundly are even the daily death in hospital figures being under-reported.
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Jo Maugham QC
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I have been up most of the night looking - for a client who employs 000s - at the legal detail of the coronavirus job retention scheme. This, of course, is the scheme that is suppose to help those in employment. I have REAL concerns that it won't help the most vulnerable. THREAD.
The difficulties arise for, in particular, 'casual' workers: i.e. those who work intermittently, often through agencies, and/or those on Zero Hours Contracts. /1
Now the guidance that HMRC has published is pretty clear that they are within the scope of the CJRS (gov.uk/guidance/claim…).

But are they? /2
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Geeky - but rather important - question about the operation of the CJRS for those working intermittently through an umbrella or an agency. How can the employer - for these purposes the umbrella/agency - know whether the cessation is attributable to coronavirus?
It's of the essence of these types of arrangements that the work will be intermittent. The umbrella/agency might take a decent stab at whether the interruption is attributable to coronavirus but if it gets that judgment wrong it's risking a great deal of money.
And there is little incentive for it to take any risk at all. It might be happy - it might even positively want to - help its intermittent workforce. But there's no financial incentive for the umbrella/agency and getting the judgment wrong could well be existential.
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