Mum claims Larbert school used wrong thermometer to test pupils

By Kirsty Paterson
Published 19th Aug 2020, 12:30 BST
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A mum says her disabled twins were put in isolation and told they had to stay off school for ten days because an unreliable thermometer gave a faulty reading.

The parent, who has two children in Kinnaird Primary’s Thistle Wing, says it is unacceptable that a forehead strip thermometer was the only thing available to staff when her children developed a rash at school.

The thermometer used to take the six-year-old twins’ temperatures gave a reading of 38 degrees – which triggered the school’s protocols to deal with Covid-19.

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It also sparked a nightmare for the twins’ mum who was phoned by the school at 1.30 pm to pick her children up.

Their dad was seriously injured in a motorbike accident and has a broken leg, pelvis and collar bone so is bed-bound and cannot drive at the moment.

Thinking her children had Covid-19 and frantically phoning friends and relatives to arrange transport, she couldn’t get to the school until 4.30 pm and arrived to find her daughter face down on the floor screaming.

She said: “I was in a panic and my d