Coronavirus: Campaign page launched to provide Peterborough communities with Covid-19 information

The page on Peterborough City Council’s website is providing communities, organisations and services with coronavirus campaign materials including posters, tweets and Facebook posts to encourage people to do simple and effective things such as regularly washing hands with soap and warm water for 20 seconds.

This can help prevent the spread of all germs and viruses, including coronavirus.

These materials complement the Public Health England and NHS campaigns on Covid-19.

The campaign page can be found at: https://www.peterborough.gov.uk/healthcare/public-health/coronavirus/coronavirus-campaign-for-communities.

Meanwhile, councillors have thanked education staff for their hard work in Peterborough and Cambridgeshire during the current crisis.

Cllr Lynne Ayres, Peterborough City Council’s cabinet member for education, said: “The last couple of weeks have been enormously challenging for everyone involved in education. You have all had to deal with an unprecedented and rapidly changing situation.

“So I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone involved – staff in early years’ settings and schools, governors, pupils and parents for your dedication and all-round brilliance. Everyone has worked tirelessly to keep things working as well as possible, it really has been an incredible team effort and I’m very proud of you all.

“Rest assured, our council’s education team will continue to work to offer all schools the support and guidance that they need.”

Cllr Simon Bywater, chairman of the Children & Young People Committee at Cambridgeshire County Council, said: “We are in unprecedented times and the ever changing nature of our current situation is testing us all professionally, and personally. The last couple of weeks have been enormously challenging for everyone involved in education.

“I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone in schools, early years’ practitioners, childminders, partners and local authority officers for the dedication and superhuman effort they have shown so far. I have seen some fantastic examples of people coming together and going above and beyond to ensure those children in attendance are safe, and those who are at home have the resources they need to continue learning and developing.

“I also want to thank our parents for keeping your children at home. It helps ease some of the pressure and is helping prevent the further spread of the virus.

“This period may run for some time yet, but I am fully confident the council’s education teams and the wider education community will continue pulling together.”