Asymptomatic testing: primary and maintained nursery school staff
Information on rapid asymptomatic coronavirus (COVID-19) testing for staff in primary schools, school-based nurseries and maintained nursery schools.
Applies to England
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This guidance is for all staff working in:
- local authority maintained primary schools – including special schools and pupil referral units (PRUs)
- primary academies - including special academies and alternative provision free schools
- junior schools
- non-maintained special schools
- independent primary schools - including independent special schools and independent alternative provision
- hospital schools
- school-based nurseries maintained nursery schools
- private, voluntary and independent nurseries (from 22 March 2021)
There’s separate guidance on asymptomatic testing for early years settings.
Staff working in all-through schools and middle schools should be tested through the secondary school testing programme.
Updates to this page
Published 18 January 2021Last updated 24 March 2021 + show all updates
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Updated the guidance to include information on who should be offered testing, how the testing works, testing pupils and what staff with symptoms or a positive test result need to do.
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Added updated information about reporting delivery and test issues using the form, and contacting the helpline for the link which has been shared with primary schools, school-based nurseries, and maintained nursery schools, to access guidance and support materials.
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First published.