In this edition: letter from Director of Public Health, face coverings, school transport and school testing guidance updated |
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LA COVID-19 update 12 March 2021 |
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Audience: all education settings, including Early Years and FE providers North Yorkshire’s Director of Public Health has a message for families in North Yorkshire as many children and young people return to settings this week. It is a timely reminder of the measures that we can all do to help prevent the spread of Covid 19 as well as information for families about the opportunities for testing that are now being offered. Please pass this on to parents / carers through your usual channels.
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DHSC delivery of face coverings to secondary and further education settings
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Audience: Secondary and FE settings Message from DFE: In line with Public Health England (PHE) advice, the Department has temporarily extended its policy on the use of face coverings in education and childcare settings. This change took effect from 8th March and will be in place until Easter. As with all measures, we will keep our face coverings policy under review and update guidance accordingly. For information on the face coverings guidance see the relevant sector specific guidance here. We continue to expect that most staff, pupils, and students will already have access to face coverings from their wider use in society. However, it is recommended that all settings have a small contingency stock of face coverings available if an individual is struggling to access a face covering, or has damaged/forgotten their own. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has a strong stock of PPE including the Type IIR face masks. To support the return to full attendance and ensure maximum compliance with the system of controls, DHSC are distributing Type IIR masks to secondary settings and FE institutions. This supply is for use only as the settings’ contingency stock of face coverings. Secondary settings and FE institutions should expect to receive an initial delivery by the end of the week commencing 8th March. In the coming weeks, these settings may receive further stock depending on the size of the establishment and requirement for contingency face covering stock. We estimate that this stock should be sufficient to cover the settings’ contingency face covering stock until at least the Easter holidays. These face coverings are being provided by DHSC at no cost. Therefore, DHSC cannot accept returns of these items. As outlined in DfE guidance, in primary and early years (EY) settings it is recommended that staff and visitors wear face coverings where social distancing cannot be maintained between adults. Children in these settings should not be asked to wear face coverings. For any queries or complaints on delivery or missing items, please contact the DHSC PPE helpline (provided by UNIPART) on 0800 8766802, the setting should identify itself as an education setting. Alternatively, you can email dfeppequeries@unipart.com and the query will be handled by the helpline team. For any questions on DfE face covering policy, please refer to the DfE guidance or call the DfE coronavirus (COVID-19) helpline on 0800 046 8687.
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Updated school transport guidance
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Audience: secondary school settings including special schools Updated guidance around the use of face coverings in schools was issued yesterday and can be found here. For pupils over the age of 11 the current document now advises that face coverings should be worn whilst on home to school transport unless the person is exempt. This brings the guidance in line with that issued for pupils travelling on public transport.
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Audience: all school settings Updated guidance and FAQs have been issued by NHS test and trace to clarify actions needed after receiving results from LFT and / or PCR tests.
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