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Letters School administrator Edward Collier on why vaccinating teachers is not enough to keep schools open The Department for Education requires schools to provide Covid data on a daily basis. Photograph: ljubaphoto/Getty Images/iStockphoto The Department for Education requires schools to provide Covid data on a daily basis. Photograph: ljubaphoto/Getty Images/iStockphoto Wed 6 Jan 2021 12.30 EST Last modified on Wed 6 Jan 2021 12.33 EST I can assure Nigel Gann (Letters, 4 January) that I am required to complete an online form for the Department for Education on a daily basis, collecting Covid data from the school at which I am an administrator. I am required to say whether we are open and for whom, how many children there are on the rolls, how many are absent and why (Covid in school, Covid out of school, other illness or absence reason), and then repeat the process for teaching and support staff. I have been doing this since March 2020. I have no id ....