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I can foresee another COVID-19 outbreak in September when parents are forced to send their children back to school. With the threat of fines for keeping children off school, it's likely that impoverished parents will send their children to school even if they show symptoms of COVID-19. Overcrowded schools do not have the space to even allow for social distancing, even at just 1 metre, never mind enforcing it. I doubt they'll have the facilities to implement other precautions either. It's a recipe for disaster.

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SW-User

The 2m / any social distancing has never been in UK government guidance to schools. It admits it is impossible at schools. Essentially the measures are currently to limit classes to 15 plus staff and to minimise all interactions of that "bubble" with other bubbles. Ie staggering start end times, breaks, lunches etc.

Looks like only change in primary will be bubbles "up to class size" given many schools have classes over 30 they can't set that as upper limit.

Senior school it looks like while year group bubbles.

The evidence is still not solid but with covid-19 children don't appear to be a significant vector in the spread of the disease. Plus they are the safest group I believe only 2 under 15s have died in whole UK so the risk is extremely low for them personally.

Sharon · F

@SW-User Doesn't look all that well planned out to me.

The evidence is still not solid but with covid-19 children don't appear to be a significant vector

"not solid", "don't appear" - are you ready to risk your and others' lives on that? I'm not.

SW-User

@Sharon see my other comment.

Problem is this disease was unknown a year ago so everything at the moment is "not solid" that's science sadly it takes time to have enough data to do enough analysis and come to agreed conclusions.

However I return to the statement from Research UK

Although the role children play in transmitting the virus is unclear, evidence consistently demonstrates that children are less likely than adults to acquire infection, and less likely to bring infections into households.[10]

https://coronavirusexplained.ukri.org/en/article/und0008/

Go there for the references to the actual papers. I've not read them myself only the analysis of the results.