In healthcare teams, there are risk assessments being done on staff, so BAME nurses are doing as much as they can virtually, but Caucasian staff are doing all of the normal work, albeit with protection equipment on. Again, you would hope the management at schools have been doing these kind of risk assessments on the faculty over the past few months.
These are common sense approaches that, with the benefit of hindsight, we are able to employ as we find out more about the virus. Schools can benefit from what we are learning in hospitals, care homes and even supermarkets and retail outlets. I know it isn't exactly the same environment, but some of the measures can also be implemented in schools, like keeping the higher risk out of the firing line.
As I've said in previous posts, there isn't going to be an ideal response to this; it's going to be about mitigating the risks in every way possible.
Andrew Marr asked that idiot Goves this morning, "can you give a cast iron guarantee that no teacher will die of covid-19 if schools return in June?". It's quite possibly the stupidest question I've heard in all of this nightmare. And I don't say that lightly.
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