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Schools call for 'high-quality ventilation equipment' fund

Government policy Coronavirus Health & Safety
School leaders want to see “high-quality ventilation equipment” made available to schools where needed after welcoming the government’s £25m roll-out of CO2 monitors as a ppositive first step.

Around 300,000 Co2 monitors will be made available “over the autumn term” to help schools identify the indoor spaces where ventilation is poor.

Improving air quality and ventilation in classroom spaces is just as important as social distancing and hand-washing in preventing Covid transmission, doctors have repeatedly told schools.

The CO2 monitors are portable so schools will be able to move them around to test all indoor spaces. A Department for Education statement said that the programme “will provide schools and other settings with sufficient monitors to take representative readings from across the indoor spaces in their estate, assessing all spaces in a relatively short space of time”.

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