After being back over a week, I can officially say that schools are being failed. We have opened fully, we have welcomed children back, we have put in the structures, routines and expectations in line with guidance. We have created action plans, rotas, risk

assessments. We have asked the impossible of our anxious staff & we have asked for more trust than ever before from our families. Yet, track and trace does NOT work,testing site availability in localities do NOT work,postal tests are NON-EXISTENT.God knows how many perfectly fine

@ModernCassie ✋Yeah we’re one of those families- third day in isolation awaiting results from youngest. Rest of us no symptoms. One headteacher and another class teacher, increasing the strain on our colleagues through our absence. It’s not working.

@ModernCassie Me, daughter apparently was positive, second test 3 days later negative. 2 children not back at school and me, sitting here trying to prove school needs me by sending out emails to staff who are working so hard, because I have to isolate , no symptoms, negative test, but hey ho.

@ModernCassie Well said.

@ModernCassie I work in a school, my eldest attends the local primary and came down with a cough on Saturday, we struggled to get a test but managed to on Sunday, only just got the neg results through at half three on a Friday.... week off school and work...

@ModernCassie Yep track and trace and the ability for people to get tested and get results back needs sorting NOW. We have tests sent on Tuesday that we are still awaiting results for. Can't plan for next week properly without knowing if a bubble may need to be sent home. So frustrating 😷

@ModernCassie @mini_lebowski Went back to work on Monday in on Tuesday sent home on Wednesday awaiting test results told cant go back to the results come back. Still waiting.

@ModernCassie Agreed

@ModernCassie My current situation. Been trying to get a test for 24hours & it's proving impossible. No drive or walk through sites with appointments and no home kits available at all. So contradictory to what the Gov let you believe. So disappointed for me, my workplace and my children.

@ModernCassie Well said Cassie. Utterly disgraceful. Indy SAGE and others have said from the outset that effective TTI needed to be in place before we released lockdown.

@ModernCassie 100% agree - we’ll said. All the hard work everyone has put in to get schools up and running - and all the faith the children and parents have shown to get attendance up to 90%. Yet it’s in the back of everyone’s mind that without and track and trace the risk remains high.

@ModernCassie Totally agree! Making the possible, impossible! 🙈

@ModernCassie Thank you for saying this Cassie, I could not agree more. We have been failed, our staff failed, our families failed and our pupils failed. This government should be ashamed at the betrayal they have presided over.

@ModernCassie Fantastic. Doesn't the truth hurt?

@ModernCassie Couldn’t agree more! Appalling!

@ModernCassie Track and trace is a shambles

@ModernCassie I feel for you Cassie. It must be so frustrating. I can offer nothing constructive by way of response but just wanted to say I’m sure your families appreciate all you’re doing and huge respect to you for your strength and leadership. Your pupils are lucky to have you.

@ModernCassie Absolutely, schools and staff are doing a brilliant and thankless job. I dont get why tests cannot be available through gp surgeries now.

@ModernCassie Yes, I found this. I am a teacher, I felt ill on Tuesday and tried to get a local test, I was given the options of Lecister or Aberdeen (from Merseyside). I applied for a postal test which took 3 days to come, then couldn't register it online because the site was too busy 😦

@ModernCassie Well said.

@ModernCassie 8 hours refreshing a website to book a test for a sick child. Moonshot here we come.