Webinar - Maintaining Healthy School Communities in the Face of the Coronavirus (30 Oct)

Maintaining Healthy School Communities in the Face of the Coronavirus

THE WEBINAR SERIES CONTINUES

October 30, Friday at 1pm (GMT) 

According to health officials in Ireland, ​the risks of coronavirus transmission in schools are acceptable, vis-a-vis the risks and consequences to children of closing schools, with infection rates running at about a third of the rate seen in the overall community. With level 5 restrictions in place for Ireland, it has become a cornerstone of the government’s Plan for Living with Covid-19 to​ ensure children continue to have the educational and social benefits from attending school, also benefiting parents. ​However, as community infection rates rise, uncertainty grows about the effectiveness of infection control measures for protecting pupils, staff and the wider school community.

For children in low-resource settings, the consequences of school closures for children’s lives ​are more serious, given the potential for irreversible ​or long-term disruption to educational potential; and the risks of increasing child-labour and the particular vulnerabilities of girls, where family poverty can push them into early marriage.

We will hear from representatives of schools in Ireland on the impact of the virus in their schools, and from organisations and individuals in Cambodia and Ethiopia on the consequences of the virus on their community’s education system, health and wellbeing.

We will be asking what we can all do to maintain healthy communities at grassroots level, so that our school communities can continue to educate in environments where the weight of compounding crises is threatening the preservation of a basic human right for hundreds of thousands of children.

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For more information, visit: https://globalhealth.ie/weekly-webinar-series/