The latest
figures still show there's a massive increase in secondary age kids and also in the Somerset/Wiltshire/Bristol area where presumably the testing failures were, but the remaining areas still as you were.
Some schools here have half term this week and next week, others have 1 week which seems to be either, that's probably going to be the same in most areas.
I see some areas have also (correctly IMV) introduced mask wearing in schools again, even if this has a minimal impact it's worth it because it's in a high infection environment at the moment.
If the effects of basically having the schools closed for a week or two doesn't have an effect, they need to be doing more about vaccinating this group - at present I've read that this is mainly being done through the schools. Considering I think they are just getting a single dose of Pfizer like the adults are (well, apart from 1 dose not 2) I don't understand why they can't just book appointments/walk in to the vaccination centres which presumably is a better solution anyway?
Since they've had since June now I'm not sure what else can be done for vaccine hesitant adults, they might just have to catch it.
Hospitalisations do still seem to be trending way below the SAGE estimates from a few months back though.