continued regular testing for children at home and a comprehensive contingency framework to manage outbreaks. as of first december, over 95.2 million tests have been completed across all education settings and the government has made over £100 million of funding available to education settings to support with costs. schools and education settings have a range of measures in place to manage corporate and reduce transmission, including regular testing, additional hygiene practices, increasing ventilation and procedures for managing confirmed cases. from tuesday 14th december, a new national daily testing of covid testing policy was introduced which means young people are fully vaccinated adults who are identified in close contact with covid can take an eight nhs rapid lateralflow test every day for seven days and continue to attend their setting as normal unless you have a positive result. we also recommend all students and staff to wear face