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Finally, rather belatedly it appears the government now concede there is a problem with education in Kent... Yet another horse disappearing over the hill...

Just leaves the funk wits option then... :)

I don't know what other areas do regarding school transport, but here in Swale there are dedicated school buses that pick up from the 5 senior schools and ferry the children back to their home areas. The understanding for most schools is that pupils would be kept in year bubbles, to attempt to...

September wasn’t the problem, it has been in particular from October half term. The Sittingbourne area, as of today, has multiple schools (primary and senior) either fully closed or partially closed to year groups. Clearly there is a problem! Yes non conformity is a problem, but I am sure that...

As an update on this, Meridian evening news had an article on Swale being the 2nd worse borough in the country, and not a single mention of schools or school transport from our MP Gordon Henderson, who was wishy washy in the extreme. Swale had low infection rates until September, then they...

No-one has officially said it is the school buses, but a bit of digging doesn't make it too hard to find a correlation. As a little bit of background, Swale covers the areas Sittingbourne, Faversham and the Isle of Sheppey. The Isle of Sheppey has one senior school for 11 plus children, which...

So good to see (not) that my local region, Swale, is heading for a Christmas number 1 that not even Simon Cowell will be able to stop... largely driven by the school bus system, with multiple schools sharing the same buses - no year bubbles on the buses. Several of the local schools have now...

Well, took our first drive out today, since "lockdown" began - taking my wife to hospital for a PET scan. When I made similar journeys during Lockdown 1.0, in March and April I barely saw another car on the 17 mile journey to Maidstone hospital, coupled with the odd white van and delivery...

I certainly hope you are correct... Strangely, I and most people who know me, would consider me a very positive person, to the point of being annoyingly so... I just find the governments frequent lack of action, or slowness to respond to things so so frustrating...

No I don't, but it doesn't make the slowness to react by the government any the less, just because it doesn't directly affect me or my children. Education is just another one of those areas where the government have been, and probably will be, embarrassed by their lack of action until their...

And children now are missing multiples of that, yet the government still dither with regards next year's GCSE and A levels. What good is a 3 week delay, when moths have been missed? Follow Wales example and cancel early, or just drag your heels to the 11th hour and look stupid, like last year...

I understand the debate and general consensus that school should continue - for the sake of the kids, but what is going to happen to those that keep missing time off school? My grandson has just had 2 weeks off school for the October half term, closely followed by 14 days of isolation as his...

I hope you are right. Although certainly in my area, Swale, it looks like gains in reduction from WFH will be offset against infection spread on school buses. Oh well, you win some, you lose some!

Just fallen foul of the ridiculousness of this current lockdown. To keep ourselves safe, as a family we only go out once a day for exercise, talking a walk from our home, round the local cemetery and back again, taking us about an hour, good walking exercise, and seeing nobody, apart from the...

Do you know, the thing I find most surprising about your story is that National Trust Properties are open! What exactly IS closed, apart from pubs, cafes and hairdressers? * * I know there isn't an exhaustive list, but it does seem a bit haphazard lockdown this time!

This story appears to originate from The Daily Mail, who have a clear agenda regards lockdown and Covid in general. Boris may well not have been happy with the data used, as I believe nor would Vallance or Whitty - however, the other models used that day showed large numbers of deaths, that...

Totally 100% agree with this. It just ain’t like the first lockdown and is probably achieving nothing! Another half hearted, half baked, too late measure from this incompetent shower!

Jesus wept, I've just seen this on the BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54785032 I've not supported the conspiracy theories, or that Government were trying to scare us, but come on, it now turns out that 4,000 deaths a day was based on out of date data, and actually appears to be a...

So people should go to the pub, but just don’t go home... sounds good!

And yet this article, from a catering organisation disputes the hospitality figure as a misreading of the data and that what is being represented is % of clusters... the article explains it better than I do! https://catererlicensee.com/low-infection-rate-for-pubs-restaurants-figures-disputed/