Parent shielding & kids back to school

Jeremy535897

unforeseen said:

Yes the country is in National Lockdown which uses the tier 4 rules as their basis. 
The country is not in Tier 4 as tiering no longer applies. 
It was a lot easier to use existing legislation than create a new one that duplicates part of an existing one. 

Legislation here, as mentioned earlier:

PART 3

Tier 4 area

Every area of England, apart from the territorial waters adjacent to England and the airspace above England and those territorial waters, is within the Tier 4 area.

unforeseen

Yes that was amendment 3 on the 5th Jan. But tier 4 now is different to the tier 4 that places such as Manchester etc had, which is why even the government call it National Lockdown, to prevent confusion. Your average man in the street is not interested in legislation. Tier 4 and national lockdown are 2 different things to  them. Tiering as we remember it has been withdrawn, it no longer exists.
As I said. It is/was easier to modify existing legislation than create new. When even the government the government and even CPS  call it national lockdown why do you find it so hard to accept it? 

soolin

None of this actually matters to the OP and we have gone off on a tangent, the original question concerned whether children can go to school even if a parent is shielding, and the answer to that has already been given. Tiers/lockdown make no difference in the scenario in the OP. 

Kim_kim

Thrugelmir said:

Are you in line for vaccination? 

Yes she is.  It’s not me.

Kim_kim

wannabe_a_saver said:

Lots of shielding parents had this back in September.  The children are still supposed to attend school. 

She’s a new shielder  - hence not being aware of the earlier rules.  

Kim_kim

MarkN88 said:

If you have no one to take them, I’m sure if you ask around someone would help.
If it’s just because you are worried there not back too long anyway. 

There not back for long anyway. I know dates vary from area to area but where I am they go back 8th March, than the Easter holidays start on the 26th March and there not back until 12th April. By that time shielding will be over from the 31 March. 

Her worry was less about taking them - she can jump in her car & shut herself in. But more about her children mixing with lots of others all day, 5 days a week & potentially bringing the virus home.  

Kim_kim

Mum2Boys_2 said:

I work in a school and I cant speak for your child’s school but from a school perspective our sanitising is unbelievable and we have had only 9 cases out of 700 children and 100 staff. 

Technically it is unlikely you will be prosecuted if you don’t send them but bare in mind they will miss education and normalcy which I think they really need. 

As long as you ingrain hand hygiene and get them to change straight out of their clothes when they come home, as well as always wearing the mask, then I think the risk is much much lower. 

I have worked in the school around children throughout, I’ve had good hand hygiene and worn ppe and I have not had Covid. 

I hope this brings you some reassurance X 

Thank you, most kind.
She doesn’t want their education to suffer anymore than it has, she hasn’t sent them in as a key worker, she would have been entitled to.
She just wanted to understand the rules, is she supposed to or not.  

Mrsn

The guidance from the department for education is clear children will be expected to return from the 8th March. Fines and referrals can be made via the local authority for non attendance.

I appreciate the anxiety around all of sudden being deemed as vulnerable however I’m assuming the children were going to school before the latest lockdown so the risk so to speak will have been present previously, just viewed in a different way at that time.

sheramber

there was a report that said that there was no record of children being infected in a school setting.  Children who were infected had been infected  through contact a home.
In my grandson's school the children do not mix with any other than their own class bubble.
Classes are kept separate, breaks are staggered .
 The school has separate play areas and classes use one area only to prevent mixing, lunches are taken at  their desks which are all separate in rows  as they used to be years ago. No tables in groups anymore. 

Kim_kim

sheramber said:

there was a report that said that there was no record of children being infected in a school setting.  Children who were infected had been infected  through contact a home.
In my grandson's school the children do not mix with any other than their own class bubble.
Classes are kept separate, breaks are staggered .
 The school has separate play areas and classes use one area only to prevent mixing, lunches are taken at  their desks which are all separate in rows  as they used to be years ago. No tables in groups anymore. 

I work with a lady who her & her husband has been working from home for a year & not going out. 

Their daughter caught COVID in the nursery & brought it home to both of them.  It whipped right through the nursery.