Thread by @karamballes

1/ Thread: Lots of DfE updates this week.

First theres the Guidence for Covid app but its got a 16+ age limit, and turns out you can't log NHS tests on it. Schools and colleges will have to write a policy around this guidence. More about this later this weekend.

2/ RSE statutory guidence which says we have to talk about cancel culture and deplatforming while at the same point banning 'victim narratives' and a range of other things that seem odd to squeeze into RSE

A good outline of some concerns here

https://twitter.com/BanGaoRen/status/1309748142062018567?s=19

3/ Then there are changes to the remote learning guidence which have so far been eclipsed by concerns with the other guidence updates.

It appears the Government has ended the laptop offer for disadvantaged students

4/ Main question, many schools didn't recieve the full quota of laptops and routers they were promised. If they are still waiting will DfE honour that promise or is it just tough luck if they didn't get them?

5/ Laptops will be made available if you have an outbreak, I hope they deliver this time, if schools have to wait 2 weeks the laptops will arrive after the isolation time is over.

Also why aren't 6th formers included? Nearby school just put the whole of year 12 into isolation

6/ If you didn't get the laptops the DfE failed to deliver dont worry.

You can use the catch up money to plug the gaps in their broken promises.

So the moment they provide more funding they are already suggesting to divert it to make up for previous inadequacies

7/ Update: how does the RSE guidence about speaking out against law breaking square with the proposal to allow certain government agencies to break the law?
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