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UK parents to test children for Covid twice a week when schools reopen

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February 18, 2021
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London, Feb. 18, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Parents will be asked to test their teenage children twice a week for Covid when they return to the classroom, reports say.

UK Schools will only oversee one round of mass testing, when pupils return for the first time (Sky News Image)

According to the Daily Telegraph, Families of secondary school pupils will be asked to administer lateral flow test at home under government plans to reopen schools as the COVID-19 lockdown is eased

Education unions have agreed that schools will only oversee the mass testing of secondaries once, at the start of term, before home testing begins.

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The phased return of pupils is expected to start on March 8, with some year groups starting later so they can all be tested.

Asked about this report during an interview on Sky News, care minister Helen Whately did not confirm or deny the story.

“Next week more will be set out about how the return to school is going to work,” she said.Advertisement

Ms Whaley said later in a BBC interview: “There is work being done to look at how testing will help schools come back. But there will be more details set out about that next week.”

Boris Johnson is due to reveal his plan for easing lockdown on Monday.

The prime minister has said getting pupils back in the classroom is the government’s priority, with 8 March proposed as the earliest possible data on which this could happen.

It is not clear at this stage whether all year groups would go back en masse, or whether there would be a more staggered return.

According to the Telegraph, DfE officials will meet with education unions today to finalise arrangements for mass testing of secondary pupils.

Schools will only oversee one round of testing, when pupils return for the first time, it reported.

This will require some secondaries to stagger the return of year groups in order to carry out the tests, the paper said.

Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders union, was quoted by the paper as saying: “We think that is a good idea.

“It reinforces the responsibility for families rather than assuming bits of the state, like schools, will carry out the tests.”

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