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July 28, 2020 Serological blanket tests for teaching and non-teaching staff before the start of lessons. For students, sample tests, free and on a voluntary basis. A medical surveillance specialist in each institution, a permanent table between the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Health and the relevant unions. These are some of the points contained in the draft protocol of understanding for the safe start of the school year, under discussion between Viale Trastevere and the social partners.

On the reopening, today at 12 the Chamber of the Chamber awaits the urgent information of Lucia Azzolina. The minister continues to have no doubts and reiterates the schools will reopen for everyone on September 14th. The minister for relations with Parliament, Federico D'Incà, backs him: "The whole government is working to respect the commitment to bring the students back to class in September. Ensuring the education and training of our young people is for we are a fundamental point. We work, we don't waste time arguing, "he writes on social media. As we will return to class, the government will establish it in these days, also in agreement with the technical scientific committee: "When the coronavirus phenomenon broke out in March we had no kind of scientific research, we always trusted the scientific community, and we keep doing it, "he recalls. So, he assures, he will continue to do. And cut short on the controversies with respect to the 'chicken coop classes': "If we talk about overcrowded classrooms it is always good to remember a little history. If they exist it is because of cuts made in the past and to which we are now remedying, investing a lot of money on school, because from January to today we have put six billion on school, in the face of the brutal cuts that have been made in the past ".

With the recovery funds then, he explains, the real "qualitative leap" will come. And he announces that he wants to invest all the money that comes from the European fund in construction and a reduction in the number of pupils per class. In the draft study, the ministry also undertakes to activate, through the Department for Human, Financial and Instrumental Resources, a dedicated help desk service: web assistance active from September 1, from Monday to Saturday, to collect questions and reports on the application of security measures and provide assistance and operational support, including administrative ones.

The help desk will also deal with transmitting the individual critical issues to the permanent table on the progress of the implementation of the technical scientific document between the government and the social partners on a periodic basis. In collaboration with the ministries of Health, Labor and Public Administration, with the involvement of trade unions, precise indications will be identified regarding the measures to be taken against the so-called 'fragile workers' in schools. To increase the workforce, the Minister's way passes through the competition: "We are already building the decree to distribute the workforce among all the regions of Italy to the Ministry of Education".