i get the impression that the overwhelming majority of people on this Forum are decent human beings, kind and considerate...and whilst we may not agree in everything...clearly we don’t  otherwise UIA would be very tedious but we’d all be concerned for folk on here who may well have very difficult health backgrounds etc etc or awaiting treatment for other conditions etc etc...it is just a shame that there are a couple of posters on here who insist on posting let’s be frank, utter tripe. These posts are not helpful..sure we can disagree about the Govts response etc etc..but telling folk not to worry, just go out and get it and pop a few pills is 🤬🤬🤬

I'm grateful in a way that I don't have to be back until Wednesday! TBH the school is lucky I live on my own, the others are having to self-isolate for 14 rather than 7 days.

I know our site team will be thinking the same. I believe they'll be operating a skeleton staff service, with just one to unlock and another to lock up. I also imagine much of their time will be spent in the office, safely away from the kids!

Think that’s the way forward but will it mean reduced pay during this period or reduced future holidays can’t see authorities paying for this amount of time.

Many are are already asking this question

I think we will have around 15 children in. All staff except those in high risk groups are expected to work, which means there will be at least 40 staff there, probably more. Some of who are having to send their own children to other schools as we are all classed as key workers. 

I'm not in until Wednesday and I'm hoping the stupidity of the situation will be clear by then. 

Yeah I don't think we can be certain that it's just a matter of time before we become Italy. It does look likely that we'll be having hundreds of deaths daily in April, but nobody knows.

On a slightly different note, my sister was telling me about the story of a businessman in Greece, he was in Wuhan and Beijing in mid-Jan, then spent a week in Milan in early Feb and he lives in one of the hotpots in Greece. He never had any symptoms and he has now tested negative.

We don't have a formal predicted grades system up here which muddies the water significantly. We have to concoct some form of predicted grade (after the exams body removed basically all of the mandatory coursework a couple of years ago). Either way there are a lot of stressed out young people. Some of it is avoidable but unfortunately much is not.

It's not major in the very big picture but when you have worked for your  much or the whole senior school life for a certain goal or dream and then having that decided by something not far off the throw a die it can seem massive.

PL in terms of a rota, I mean for being there in the building itself, the rest of the time will be maintaining the delivery of learning by online/virtual methods so I/we would not be working part time. 

What's the hold up today?

Maybe they were busy signing off the extra beds, staff & ventilators for next week and that's held them up a bit?

Even the tweet saying figures are delayed. Was delayed by 2hrs as that usually comes out at 3pm.

I guess they have to get the figures from each local authority, of which there are well over 100, and it only takes one to be late to delay the total.

Italy. Changes with yesterday.

Current cases: 42,681 (+4,821)

Deceased: 4,825 (+793)

Recovered: 6,072 (+943)

Intensive Care: 2,857 (+202)

Total cases: 53,578 (+6,557)

Problem around here is that many schools only now have the caretaker working for the school the rest are agency workers and are paid by the hour with the contract with the relevant agency so I can ask for help, If I don’t unlock or lock one of the teachers has the job.

Yes your situation a little different, children and adults with EHCP we can’t forget single parent families who have very limited options

it will be about support, guidance and supervision of that special needs group, which I must add you all do a fantastic job

Is it definitely +20? Very bad if you're right. 

Breakdown of the Italy deaths by age group.

https://www.epicentro.iss.it/coronavirus/bollettino/Infografica_21marzo%20ITA.pdf

Have heard numerous reports of people heading off to their second/holiday homes to wait it out (taking their stockpiled food with them?). Makes some sense but if these people do get into trouble then they may find the local hospitals aren't equipped to deal with these extra people? (although in summer there would be loads of people in these areas I suppose)

Blimey 

And yet people are still oblivious 

Norway has banned this (most people there own cottages/cabins in the woods).

Yes with great sadness

BREAKINGNHS confirms 53 more deaths in England

Another 53 people with coronavirus have died in England, bringing the total of deaths in the country to 220.

The patients who died in England were aged between 41 and 94 years old and all had underlying health conditions.

Earlier, two more deaths were recorded in Wales, bringing its total to five, and another death in Scotland, taking the number to seven

Northern Ireland has recorded one death.

People will run out of adjectives at this rate!

As I keep saying, the death rate will continue to go up quickly for at least 14 days. We will, I'm sure, be seeing a couple to a few hundred deaths a day - i.e. more than the total so far - within 10 days.

All I can hope is that as the death toll skyrockets people will finally pay attention and keep their distance from each other.