Key worker information                                   Update 29.03.20

School Hubs

We are now providing a seven-day school and childcare support operation across ten school hubs ONLY for key workers to enable them to carry out their critical roles in the NHS or other essential service during this health emergency.

Our hub is CUMBERNAULD ACADEMY. (South Kildrum Ring Road, G67 2UF)

It will be open from Monday 30 March between the hours of 8am and 8pm and at the weekends on Saturdays and Sundays from 10am to 3pm, to provide crucial care for key workers and other vulnerable groups.

It is essential, to stop the spread of coronavirus, that parents and carers who are able to take care of their children at home or have a partner who is not a key worker, provide childcare. This seven-day support is being offered to key workers who absolutely require it to enable the NHS and other critical services to function.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should any child who has symptoms of coronavirus, or who lives in a household where someone has symptoms, present at school. The whole family must follow the self-isolation advice.

The service outlined below will be available at CUMBERNAULD ACADEMY Monday to Friday for children and young people at early years (from birth to age five), primary and secondary age.

 Pre-school 8am-9am

School day: 9am-3pm

After care 3pm-8pm

All children and young people will be provided with a hot meal and snack.

The service will be managed by a team of volunteer staff from Education and Families and other services across the council and will provide learning appropriate to the needs of children and young people, Monday to Friday. Children and young people will be offered a range of indoor and outdoor active play, sport and leisure activities with Active Schools, Culture and Leisure North Lanarkshire (CLNL) and third-sector partners for the after-care and weekend service.

In line with government guidance, all staff and children and young people attending the hub are exercising social distancing measures and practising good hand hygiene while enjoying a range of activities.

Appropriate risk assessments have been carried have been out at the hub and incorporate relevant adult/pupil ratios and the specific needs of children and young people.

As before, all parents/carers will need to complete a keyworker form on arrival at the hub.

Volunteer staff should attend the hub school nearest their place of work for 8.45am.

Transport

No school transport will run.

Free meals

A new payment system is being set up for pupils who receive free school meals- this includes all primary 1 to primary 3 pupils.

This commenced on Friday 27 March and will run throughout the current health crisis.

Early Years Provision

Key workers who require care for their child or children will be supported by the school hub as outlined above.

Key worker categories

Please note: these are the categories of key workers who can, if absolutely necessary, access support. The council does not make decisions, beyond council employees, about who must or must not attend work. Your employer must behave responsibly in making decisions and heed UK and Scottish Government advice.

Category 1

Includes:

• Health and care workers directly supporting COVID-19 response and associated staff
• Workers supporting life-threatening emergency work as well as critical primary and community care provision
• Staff of energy suppliers
• Staff, including teachers and early years workers, providing childcare and learning for other key workers and staff who support school buildings

Category 2

Please note that the first presumption is that staff from home will work from home

• All other health and care workers including home support and care home staff
• Emergency services staff, including police, fire and rescue, prison officers
• Military personnel
• Social workers
• Homelessness staff

Those supporting critical national infrastructure including:

• Staff keeping air, water, road and rail passenger transport operating
• Oil, gas, electricity and water and sewerage workers
• Logistics staff including drivers and transport workers
• Food and other necessary goods staff including food production, processing, distribution, sale, delivery as well as those essential to the provision of hygienic and veterinary medicines
• Staff in essential financial service provision including: banks, building societies and financial market infrastructure; IT and data infrastructure; postal services; civil nuclear, chemicals and telecommunications; payment providers; waste disposal.
• Journalists and broadcasters

Category 3

Other council and associated staff in the following categories. Please note that the first presumption is that staff who can work from home will work from home

• Strategic-level management and support staff
• Waste services staff
• Fleet services staff
• Cemeteries staff
• Property repairs and maintenance staff including frontline workers of Mears and Saltire
• Roads and lighting maintenance staff including staff of Amey
• Facility support services including cleaning, catering, school crossing patrollers and janitorial staff
• Human resources staff including payroll and employee service centre
• IT staff
• Communications staff
• Finance staff including welfare, revenue and benefits staff and municipal bank staff
• Registration staff
• Essential legal services
• Psychological services staff