the Minister for education, Anna Ekström (S), on Tuesday, referred to the committee on the occasion of the new coronavirus. The background to this was the debate that is going on about how the students who have been in the areas of risk to do that.
the Research has educational spokesperson, Kristina Axén Olin, was not satisfied with the answer she got. The municipalities and the friskolornas the heads of the house, is not the appropriate body to carry out the assessment, she says.
“ I think the government is going to take on the responsibility, a clear and obvious: what do we do with the children who have been in affected areas? They should stay home or not stay at home. said Kristina Axén Olin.
the r’s in the Swedish emergency response centre, which has been applied so far, since the outbreak of the disease, the covid-19, that is, that the chief of the fathers should continue to guide the school. They will be expected to keep up-to-date on the recommendation by the Folkhälsomyndigheten go out with. The agency has said that, ”there is, from the perspective of a smittskyddsperspektiv, in the current situation, no need to be healthy for the students, who returned from a trip to stay home from school.”
It is not good enough as a guiding principle, think of Kristina Axén Olin.
“ They haven’t told their children to go to school, they did not mean to say that they are not allowed to stay in the home, it has been said that a child who has been in the smittodrabbade areas, but do not, themselves, ill be able to go to school. It is then up to the principals to decide. We will then have a completely unreasonable situation, in which the rectors and the municipalities would be responsible for if you allow a student to come up and then it will be several hundred people infected, “ says Kristina Axén Olin.
“ I think that we need to be on the safe side, given the fact that we don’t do any screening at stockholm-Arlanda, of those who will be, for example, from the Italian Alps.
despite the fact that continues to be the chief of the fathers, who should make the decisions, on the basis of Folkhälsomyndighetens recommendations.
“ The state Folkhälsomyndigheten the best and most up to date knowledge, and to provide clear recommendations to the school principals. The worst thing you can do in the midst of a crisis is to shift the responsibility of public authorities, “ says minister for education, Anna Ekström.
She told him, before utskottsmötet that she is called the Swedish association of local authorities and regions, as well as the Friskolornas association in order to discuss the situation.
Anna Ekström points out that the education act gives the government the option to intervene more directly.
“ the Opportunity is there for emergencies, and we are in the part of the government, of course, be prepared to come up with such rules if the situation should require it.
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