Of course! Thank you!
Can’t find diabetes mentioned in the new guidance anywhere.
Johnson just told parliament those with underlying conditions or those who are pregnant and so considered vulnerable should continue to stringently follow social distancing measures and work from home where possible. This will cover staff, but also pupils.
Those who have been told to shield should continue to do so.
I think it is reasonable to request to be performing any planning/preparation/support type duties from home if at all possible. There will be pupils unable to attend school (eg being told to shield, or as members of their household are showing symptoms) and it seems reasonable to request that you support these remotely from home rather than attend school. Staff at school will have enough on to be supporting these too!
Your employer must be able to provide a safe working environment. I can only imagine it will be a nightmare for SLT to be ensuring the safeguarding of vulnerable pupils and staff when social distancing is so difficult to enforce in schools, that they most likely wouldn't want to open themselves up to reports of failure in this regard, so would happily accept an offer from vulnerable staff to be performing duties remotely. As long as you are still 'pulling your weight' so to speak, I'd think they'd have to prove that they have a lack of staff at school to force you go in. So it will also depend on surveys of how many pupils are expected to attend, and so what the legal ratio requirements therefore are.
I can only assume the headache this vagueness will be causing for SLT!
Same situation but I’m in a preschool. Are we still suppose to social distance?? Which I won’t be able to do in my setting.
What am I suppose to tell my boss? Can I work or not..... I don’t want to put myself at risk
Hi there, I’m primary and feeling the same way as you. I’ve just looked at the gov guidance (pretty useless) but it definitely does say if you are clinically vulnerable, which we are, you should not leave house unless you must and to socially distance as much as possible. With the impossibility of socially distancing at school, I have told my employer that I can’t be on work. They have been really good about it but I think I’m quite lucky there. Unlike most sectors, it seems they are resigned to it being impossible to socially distance in majority of schools so it does seem more risky than in other professions. Just my view!Hello all. With the potential impending reopening of schools for some students I am querying where I stand. As a type 1 for 40 years i am unclear as to guidance in regards to me returning to school when it reopens. There is no pressure coming from my employer however any advice would be most welcome. Thank you Jon.
Hello all. With the potential impending reopening of schools for some students I am querying where I stand. As a type 1 for 40 years i am unclear as to guidance in regards to me returning to school when it reopens. There is no pressure coming from my employer however any advice would be most welcome. Thank you Jon.
Of course! Thank you!
Can’t find diabetes mentioned in the new guidance anywhere.
Hi. I'm a secondary school Librarian with T1. I have a full classroom like timetable with the class.coming in for reading time and using the reading programme. I'm also concerned regarding distancing from the students but then also I have to deal with all the books that have been home all this time and then future handling with students. Our head has said if you feel unsafe, get signed off. Which when picking up with my DSN during a phone appt yesterday she agreed. I'm working from home atm but also preparing options (reasonable adjustments) how to run if I'm due in. uHi Jon,
I’m in exactly the same boat and just logged in to see if there was any advice. Type 1, 31 years, secondary teacher coming into contact with hundreds of kids every dayif you hear anything from school please update and I’ll do the same.
In the first few days of virus, it was like if you have diabetes, go home now! Which then seemingly vanished with the ‘shielding’ for ‘extremely’ vulnerable. The fact that it’s unclear is starting to worry me. Is it because there is such a huge Type 2 population that it would cause further chaos with so many still off work? Did they just get it wrong? I understand the argument that if you are well-controlled T1 then you ‘should’ (?) be fine but what about the theories that viruses cause autoimmune diabetes/ other conditions? I also have autoimmune under-active thyroid but I don’t want to ruin my career (especially as only second year in new school) making things difficult for others and more than awkward for myself. I wish there was clear guidance just saying yes or no should there be a phased return to school. Rant over. Will follow the thread.
Thanks a lot,
Dee
Are you a member of a union? If you’re not then it might be good to join one now: there’s also a group that’s decided to boycott the reopening. You won’t be alone if you decide not to participate in the reopening. At the risk of being pessimistic, people with diabetes do seem to figure quite a bit on the mortality stats that I’ve seen, though without proper testing and evaluating I can’t trust any stats that appear at the moment.I’ve just been checking the sky news websites this evening and found a worrying article about coronavirus and diabetes regarding death rates. It states that a quarter of uk deaths had diabetes. I wonder if government might reevaluate given these statistics.
I tend to find asking your employer to do a risk assessment helps. Diabetics appear to be higher risk so what are they going to do to ensure you can work safely?
Johnson just told parliament those with underlying conditions or those who are pregnant and so considered vulnerable should continue to stringently follow social distancing measures and work from home where possible. This will cover staff, but also pupils.
Those who have been told to shield should continue to do so.
Did people here receive a letter from Boris telling them to shield? I did not get one and my Head Teacher has asked if I did get a letter so that he knows if I should be coming back or not.
https://www.ft.com/content/c567d185-cc0f-41bb-8b17-b61792b56d1b
This article in the TES covers Unions’ reactions to schools reopening. Any worried teachers might want to contact their Union Rep.
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