Governance communications and actions

Please consider the governance arrangements for your outbreak plan. Include contact details, and roles and responsibilities of internal and external teams/individuals in your plan. Consider how to ensure appropriate communication with all key stakeholders.

We ask that you continue to notify the Schools Education Corona inbox of positive cases in school. This will enable us to continue to log numbers of pupil and staff testing positive in schools and will ensure that we can jointly ascertain situations where we need to activate the local outbreak management.

Following schools meeting the threshold/triggers set out, an initial discussion will be had with the school, and if necessary, an Incident Management Team (IMT) meeting will be arranged within 24 hours to include colleagues from the school, Local Authority, Public Health and regional HPTs (as appropriate). In these meetings the positive cases will be reviewed, existing mitigations/ measures will be understood, and the general attendance and wellness of staff/pupils attending school will be discussed. You should attend having this information to hand.

Where there is concern about levels of, and spread of, the infection additional measures can be recommended as set out below and in line with the school’s outbreak management plan. Where additional measures have been in place a further IMT will be held to jointly review the position before they are removed.