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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Max68" data-source="post: 2284862" data-attributes="member: 521172">Hope this thread can become a good place for advice, and or merely to vent!Just my two pennyworth so far.  Spoke to my Head yesterday and understandably as the Government wants all school children back in September all staff are expected back as well.  I've been placed as support in Science and not sure if that's deliberate, but I get on really well with that teacher and he has previous lung issues and I know one of his children has type 1 , so if you are going to get a colleague who will probably be cautious it's him!  The Science Lab is probably the biggest classroom so the lesser of evils possibly when it comes to social distancing and ventilation.  The Head also told me that when I'm not in Science he will try and place me covering in PE and any other outdoor lesson.  I will also talk to my Line Manager and ask if I can for instance support lunch breaks in the playground rather than in the lunch hall.  I will also ask if I can wear a mask or maybe even a visor.  I will probably have lunch in my car with a big pot of hand sanitizer handy rather than risk the small staffroom! Personally I think everyone in a school should wear a mask but that's for the Government to decide and with their previous performance will only decide this after the horse has bolted, they have never made one proactive decision in months, always reactive.  This is half the problem.  Schools and other employers are purely going on Government advice which is shabby at best and downright dangerous at worst.Can't get hold of my GP at the moment but even if she says to continue to work from home, there isn't any work from home anymore, so I either risk it or hand in my notice, but if you leave a job on your own decision then you cannot claim Universal Credit for some time!  Just hope my Lottery numbers come up before September!My Union says it's a nightmare,.  They say Government advice is really hazy to the extent that they are pretty much starting to leave the decisions to everyone else, which smacks of a Government who want to avoid getting the blame and will therefore just blame individual's or companies when things go wrong.  The Union said that they will just update as time goes on as the advice will probably have changed again come September!  They did however say I should have a risk assessment so will also mention that to my Line Manager.I might be sounding a bit dramatic here but I feel a bit like I am sitting on Death Row just about to start a game of Russian Roulette!  We can all reduce our risks massively in our personal lives, with home delivery or click and collect for food, shop online, cut our own hair etc but when it comes to work you really can't do much bar what your employer puts in place! Wish I still drove a van for a living!!!</blockquote>

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