School testing

[djhl]

Hi there

this may have been covered elsewhere but I can't find a definitive answer.

My child is back to secondary school on Monday. If he tests positive with a lateral flow test he will be sent home from school

In that case I have two questions:

1) as a parent living in the same household do I have to self-isolate until I can get a negative test?
2) Will I be paid normally during that period of self-isolation?

Thanks for responding

[POSTMAN]

You self isolate for at least 10 days (from the 1st day your son has a positive test) a negative test say after 3 days for example means nothing as you could catch it from your son on the 4th day ect.
Yes, you get paid...
It's all in the stickies/announcemennts...
Self-isolation, testing and reporting and pay.

If you have been identified as a close contact of a confirmed case and do not have symptoms you will need to self-isolate for 10 days and access a test if you develop symptoms.

Management will tell you different.....ignore management.

[Woody Guthrie]

The only time you don't have to self isolate is if your child has been sent home to isolate as a close contact of a positive case but hasn't developed any symptoms themselves.

I think they were going to mass test close contacts but they seem to have changed their minds.

Based on advice from Public Health England (PHE) and NHS Test and Trace, the testing programme initially included offering those who came into close contact with a positive case in schools the option of 7 days of daily contact testing (with selfisolation if a subsequent test was positive) as an alternative to self-isolation. PHE and NHS Test and Trace have now reviewed their initial advice in light of the higher prevalence and rates of transmission of new variants. They have concluded that these changes in virus mutations warrant further evaluation work and that daily contact testing in place of self-isolation should be paused until this evaluation has taken place. We will update this guidance once this evaluation is complete.

[POSTMAN]

Rapid lateral flow testing for households and bubbles of school pupils and staff

[Woody Guthrie]

Rapid lateral flow testing for households and bubbles of school pupils and staff

Yeah, those are only for those that don't have symptoms, haven't been in contact with a positive case and haven't been told to isolate.