Face coverings - Lateral flow tests

The request was successful.

Please provide answers and information as requested under FOI.

Question 1
Will face masks / face coverings be mandated for students and staff in September term 2021 - 2022

Question 2
Will new students and returning students be mandated to carry out lateral flow tests at the start of and during September term 2021 - 2022

Question 3
Please provide information detailing the efficiency / false negative rate as a percentage for the lateral flow test when self administered in a none sterile environment, i.e. not in a medical laboratory.

Question 4
Please provide referenced research documentation and produced risk assessments detailing the risk - benefit analysis for the mandating of face coverings in lowering the potential spread of Covid19 within Newcastle college, against any potentially negative psychological and physiological health effects which an individual student, visitor, staff member may be subject to.

Question 5
Please provide details (insurer, policy section, paragraph) of liability insurance held by Newcastle college and or Newcastle college group (NCG) which provides sufficient legal cover for any potential litigation arising from personal injuries, resulting from the mandating of lateral flow tests and the mandating of face coverings.

= Clerk, Newcastle College

Dear Mr Mann

This is to confirm that your FOI request has been received and will be responded to in due course.

Thanks
Nicola

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= Clerk, Newcastle College

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Dear Mr Mann

With regard to your FOI request, received on 17th August, please see the response attached (ref: 2021-32).

Thanks
Nicola

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Dear Nicola
Thank you for the response, I have clarified question 3 and question 4 .

Question 3.
Clarification of previous request;
Please provide the sensitivity and specificity of the lateral flow test supplied by Newcastle college when self-administered in a none sterile environment?

Question 4.
Clarification of previous request;
Please provide risk assessments and risk – benefit analysis documentation pertaining to the wearing of face coverings (masks) produced by Newcastle college / NCG as a requirement of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999?

Yours sincerely,

Mr William Mann

= Clerk, Newcastle College

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Dear Mr Mann

Thank you for your follow up email, please see a further response attached (along with a supporting document).

Thanks
Nicola

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