Welsh Schools Ventilation Progress

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Purpose of site

To lower the transmission of COVID-19 another airborne diseases in schools. ... For Wales, though, we have 1,460 schools with unknown ventilation and air filtration. We don’t know what their policy is today, but all enacted the statistically less relevant “wipe surfaces” and wash hands advice that the WHO incorrectly gave the world at the start of the pandemic.

As well as the reading materials linked to on the home page for why we should ventilate schools that have a global perspective

Wales perspective ventilation facts:

These from a FOI request, with Alwyn Jones (Education Directorate) providing answers.

CO2 Monitors question

Welsh government response: “During the Covid-19 Pandemic Welsh Government procured and distributed over 30,000 Carbon Dioxide Monitors to assist in the management of ventilation in teaching spaces across schools, colleges and universities.” And a monitoring survey an EdArXiv preprint.”

Active management of ventilation in the school day question.

Welsh government response was to link to Covid infection risk control and improving ventilation Carbon dioxide monitors in education settings

We have some UK centric reading materials, too:

• UK’s National Education Union on ventilation in schools.
• UK GOV How schools are managing ventilation to prevent the spread of airborne viruses like Covid-19.
• UK company Ventive with a good Guide to school ventilation system design: Mitigating virus spread and supporting long-term occupant health and comfort.

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Ventilation grade breakdown for schools in Wales:

• Grade 0: 1460

Welsh Local Education Authorities:

• Isle of Anglesey: 46 schools
• Gwynedd: 94 schools
• Conwy: 59 schools
• Denbighshire: 54 schools
• Flintshire: 77 schools
• Wrexham: 69 schools
• Powys: 86 schools
• Ceredigion: 43 schools
• Pembrokeshire: 60 schools
• Carmarthenshire: 108 schools
• Swansea: 93 schools
• Neath Port Talbot: 63 schools
• Bridgend: 59 schools
• The Vale of Glamorgan: 53 schools
• Rhondda Cynon Taf: 113 schools
• Merthyr Tydfil: 24 schools
• Caerphilly: 86 schools
• Blaenau Gwent: 25 schools
• Torfaen: 32 schools
• Monmouthshire: 33 schools
• Newport: 56 schools
• Cardiff: 127 schools

DIY Air filter activism in Wales to date

Dr Rhys Thomas and Marlo Davis show how to make the DIY Air filter (Corsi rosenthal box) that they have been helping Welsh schools with since 2021:

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