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Covid-19 Safe Re-opening Webinar – 24th March
If you missed the last one, you can now sign up for our second Covid-19 Safe Re-opening webinar on 24th March!
The Department for Education’s guidance for out-of-school settings who provide activities for children, was updated on 23 February 2021.
To help you prepare for safe re-opening of your supplementary education and other out-of-school activities, NRCSE is running interactive webinars on the updated guidance with opportunity to break into smaller groups to complete risk assessment for your provision.
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We offer regular updates and guidance sessions online free-of-charge to our subscribers. Subscription is £50 however, if you do not wish to subscribe, you are welcome to attend our sessions for a small fee of £25. Please share with anyone who might find this webinar useful.
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Feedback from our last Covid-19 Safe Re-opening webinar:
Re-opening and asymptomatic testing for supplementary school staff
We’ve had a lot of people asking about asymptomatic testing for supplementary schools and I will post the DfE’s answer with links below. Please do get in touch with Anne-Marie if you are struggling to access LFTs, she’s very approachable and replies promptly. But of course she can only deliver the guidance that the government provides.
Re: asymptomatic testing for supplementary schools
‘This is something we’ve been discussing with the central testing team within DfE for the past few weeks. For supplementary schools operating off a school site, the best route for now is likely to be community testing programmes. We have produced and shared guidance for LAs to help them provide a more accessible offer for out-of-school settings. However, if staff in supplementary schools are having trouble accessing these programmes, please do feed that back to us so we can try to work through any comms/ logistical issues with the testing team.’
Anne-Marie Mongan | Policy Adviser | Out-of-school Settings, Wraparound, and Integration Unit
More information on finding local community testing centres can be found here https://www.gov.uk/find-covid-19-lateral-flow-test-site
We will be covering how to keep your staff and pupils safe in our Covid19 Safe Re-opening webinars coming up on 10th and 24th March. Book your place here
COVID-19 Update: Out-of-school settings in Tier 4
The government announced on Saturday December 19, that London and some areas of the south east and the East of England have moved into Local Restriction Tier 4 (Stay at Home).
The central local restriction tiers guidance has been updated to reflect what this means for childcare / supervised activities for children (i.e. out-of-school settings) in Tier 4.
Registered wraparound childcare and supervised activities for children, such as out-of-school settings, should only be accessed where the provision is necessary:
- to allow parents / carers to work, seek work, undertake education or training, or attend a medical appointment;
- for the purposes of respite care; or
- where the provision is being used by home educating parents as part of their existing arrangements for their child to receive a suitable full-time education.
The out-of-school settings guidance has been updated to reflect this position in more detail.
January Return
There was also an announcement about mass testing of secondary school students during the first week of term in January. Guidance on what this means for education and childcare settings, including out-of-school settings, was published on Friday December 18: Schools and childcare settings: return in January 2021 – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
To support with the mass testing effort, the government is asking that secondary school students receiving remote education from their school during the first week of term in January do not attend out-of-school settings during this time. This means that out-of-school settings and wraparound childcare can continue to operate for face-to-face provision between 4 and 11 January 2021 for children who are:
- home educated
- in early years settings
- in primary school
- in the secondary school-age cohorts eligible for full-time on-site provision – vulnerable children, children of critical workers and those in year 11 and 13
Those of you who are continuing to operate for face-to-face provision during this period should ensure that they make parents aware that their setting should only be accessed if their child is in one of the eligible groups outlined.
| Anne-Marie Mongan | Policy Adviser | Out-of-school Settings, Wraparound, and Integration Unit Email: anne-marie.mongan@education.gov.uk gov.uk | Twitter | Facebook Sanctuary Buildings, 20 Great Smith Street, SW1P 3BT |
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