SIMPLE STEPS THAT HTs CAN DO

Yes we know the @educationgovuk guidance document is dire and has NO SCIENTIFIC basis.

Following the guidance will not be sufficient defence when a parent or staff member legally challenged your school risk assessment.
So, yep we get it no funding and no support from @educationgovuk means it’s difficult to do WHAT IS NECESSARY to prevent unnecessarily and knowingly exposing your staff, pupils and their families to increased risk of infection.
However, crafty @educationgovuk means it’s YOU not THEM that will face the initial legal action.

Whoever has conducted and signed a risk assessment that is found to breach H&S legislation IS LEGALLY LIABLE.
Basics!

Acknowledge, educate and alert your staff and pupils to the fact that #COVIDisAirborne

This isn’t new information and ignoring it won’t make it go away! Image
Conduct a robust risk assessment for EVERY SCHOOL ACTIVITY
-classroom learning
-lunch breaks
-toilet facilities
-assemblies
-PE
-transitioning around the building
-break times
-entering and exiting
For each of those activities the RISK identified is;
-aerosol transmission
-formite transmission

Then look at what scientifically recognised mitigations are available.
USE a multi-layered strategy Image
So for example, let’s look at assemblies.

A large number of unvaccinated people in a single space, talking, singing, whispering, shouting responses, etc.

Risk of aerosol transmission is mitigated by;
-reducing numbers to facilitate SD
-ensuring ventilation is adequate for space, density and duration
-ensuring ALL who are able wear a face mask
-not allowing singing, shouted responses “good morning” etc
-enduring no crowding/bottle necks on entrance and exit

Risk of formite transmission can be mitigated by;
-improved surface hygiene
-improved hand hygiene
-social distancing
-masking (so droplets aren’t expelled)

Assemblies can still be a participatory experience if use of technology such as teams/zoom is used.

No need for large indoor super spreader groupings at all.
None of the above requires @educationgovuk funding, what it does require is a school leader who UNDERSTANDS SCIENCE and is not prepared to continue unnecessarily and knowingly exposing staff, children and parents to increased risk of infection!

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More from @SafeEdForAll_UK

20 Sep
SHAME or PRAISE

1. Tell us your local authority

2. tell us if they are fining non-attendance (due to lack of safety mitigations)

3. Tell us if they are going above and beyond the unscientific @educationgovuk guidance

We’ll praise where praise is due

We’ll shame if necessary
If you wish to remain anonymous DM the details and we’ll share on your behalf.

Let’s expose this LOCAL AUTHORITY LOTTERY

Or indeed this HT lottery as sometimes different schools in the same LA are acting differently! Where’s the consistency? Where’s the transparency?
Read 5 tweets
19 Sep
A FEW QUESTIONS

These are the top 10 questions parents and school staff ask us daily;

1. If my child has already had covid are they able to be reinfected?

2. If my child has had covid and does get reinfected how will their body react a second time?
3. If I deregistered my child to avoid threats of fines will I be able to reregister when mitigations are in place or cases are significantly low?

4. Why won’t my school accept my offer of a free HEPA filtration unit?

5. Why won’t my school accept my donation of a CO2 monitor?
6. If I am referred to social services and the case is dropped, who do I complain to?

7. My school are refusing to supply me with their covid risk assessment, how do I get it?

8. Can a school remove a mask from my child?
Read 4 tweets
19 Sep
CALLING CHILD SOCIAL WORKERS

Worryingly SOME schools are referring parents who have refused to return their children to in-person education (due to the absence of scientifically recognised mitigations) to social services under ‘safeguarding’ reasons.
These schools know that fining parents will not force them to return their children.

These schools know that punitive measures for truancy will not hold up in court and will be costly to pursue - parents have legal representation in place.
These schools know that these parents have never had any safeguarding or attendance issues prior to covid.
Read 13 tweets
18 Sep
Right now we’re discussing with one of our team of parents the absolutely agonising decision they have to make for Monday.

There are many many parents facing this right now in the U.K.
They’ve kept their primary child remote learning and refused to return them to an indoor setting that has no scientifically recognised mitigations for an airborne virus.

The school already has cases.
The school have given them an ultimatum, that they expect the child in school on Monday or they will start the prosecution process.

(The wording was a little more sinister than that ‘fines or something else’ implying social services referrals??)
Read 14 tweets

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