My DS has been going to school and his childminder during lockdown.
I was informed yesterday that from 1st June you are only allowed to send children to 1 setting a week (so school or childminder).
Whilst I can understand the logic of not wanting children to mix bubbles I am really annoyed about this as:
- giving key workers 1 weeks notice that they will be loosing childcare isn't really acceptable
- are key workers no longer deemed important?
- It can take up to 14 days to display covid symptoms so allowing 1 week in school, following by a week with a childminder doesn't really prevent anything
- One of the key points of getting children back to schools is so that parents can get back to work. At my school the years that are going back in initially are only doing 2 days a week, so if wraparound care is banned how is that helping people get back to work?
- I can understand this rule a bit more for children that are just returning to school, but not for children that have been going to both throughout lockdown.
(I have emailed my MP and local council about this and I'm awaiting a response).
AIBU?