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COVID-19 Education Surveillance Edit

This dataset presents information on COVID-19 in children and young people of educational age, education staff and educational settings. This includes:\r\n\r\n\u2022\tTesting and cases among children and young people of educational age.\r\n\r\n\u2022\tHospital admissions related to COVID-19 among children and young people of educational age.\r\n\r\n\u2022\tInformation from contact tracing on cases present in an educational setting in the 7-days before symptom onset, and on cases who work in education or childcare.\r\n\r\n\u2022\tInformation about COVID-19 cases in registered school pupils.\r\n\r\nThis data is also available on the COVID-19 Education Surveillance Dashboard. Additional data sources relating to this topic area are provided in the Links section of the Metadata below. \r\n\r\nAll publications and supporting material to this topic area can be found on the Enhanced Surveillance of COVID-19 in Education settings section of the Public Health Scotland website.\r\n\r\n__From 11/06/2021 data completeness will be up to the previous Wednesday, so weekly data are aggregated from Thursday to Wednesday. Previously data covered periods from Saturday to Friday. This is due to NHS Boards submitting admission data from Monday to Friday and a three day lag for some boards by the time data is processed for COVID-19 hospital admission.__\r\n\r\n_From 2nd of July, information on testing and admissions will be extended to include 20-21 years olds, and admissions will also include 18-19 year olds. From 13th of August, information on PCR testing and admissions has been extended to include 0-1 year olds._

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License UK Open Government Licence v3.0
Category Education, Health and Social Care
Maintainer Public Health Scotland
Date Created 2021-03-29
Date Updated 2022-05-27
Original dataset link https://www.opendata.nhs.scot/dataset/covid-19-education-surveillance