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This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament

Rejected petition Testing for teachers and students for covid19

Teacher are on the front line because they are teaching the key worker children.

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Teachers are worring about their health and the health and safety of the children in our care,also teachers currently dont have ppe in schools.

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You may wish to sign some of these petitions:

Make COVID19 testing available to teaching staff caring for pupils: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/305423

Provide publicly accessible testing for coronavirus around the UK: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/301354

If you want the Government to specifically make testing available to students, or just students who are attending or will be attending school, you could start a new petition requesting this.

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

www.gov.uk/coronavirus
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips

You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/

You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Find out more: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/

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