To wonder what is going to happen with nurseries?!

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I haven’t seen any mention of nurseries/early years at all in the news/daily updates and it’s starting to stress me out slightly.

Before anyone says anything, I KNOW lockdown is important. But so is mental health, and I’m honestly at breaking point at the moment. It would be really helpful to just have some inkling of a end point where we can all aim for.

But all talk is about schools etc. Surely early years is just as, if not more important to get the economy back up and running?!

Plus tne announcement on Sunday is a road map of what might happen. It's ideas. The government has said even if they lift some restrictions they will stop them if they need to. It's a plan of ideas of what could happen, it's not a definite lifting of any measures.

@my2bundles Did you sit down this afternoon and ask yourself "How many people can I argue with for the sake of it today?"

If you think the papers are not used as a test to see how the public reacts to "ideas" you're naive.

Sorry my2bundles but you're being very naive. BoJo's not making a special announcement on a Sunday evening to say "we've got a few ideas we've been knocking about, no clue whether they'll work or not but we just wanted to kick them about because we've nothing better to do" 😂

No I'm not being naive. Just watching today's briefing, they mentioned te things they will talk about on Sunday, schools where not included in that. If you think there going to be a solid plan announced on Sunday it is you who is naive.

I'm fairly certain they have previously said they'll talk about schools.

It might not be set in stone but it should be "a plan" at least.

I've a child who's usually in nursery. I imagine that when they all go back they'll all be giving each other the usual bugs which seem to result in temperatures half the time. So presumably we'll then have to keep them at home. Unless we can get a quick turn around test to show they don't have it.

My daughter works in a nursery and is currently furloughed. Received an email earlier this week from her employer to say everyone is back at work a week next Monday. Maybe businesses have heard something from the government giving an idea of lockdown lifting?

@my2bundles

Of course there will be a plan. We have been in this state for 7 weeks (by. Sunday)

If you actually think (especially when confirmed we are past the peak and other EU countries are doing stuff, that we won't set out a plan you are bonkers

The plan will be set out in date 'phases'. On that respect it will be quite fluid I expect depending on how the science affects things.

But I suspect it will be:

Date A - this
date b - that
date C- the other
date d - the other other
Date E - another other

There will be a plan on Sunday. It maybe subject to change but this adrift in lockdown cannot carry on

• But I suspect it will be:

Date A - this
date b - that
date C- the other
date d - the other other
Date E - another other*

😂

I can't do this any more, I'm exhausted. Nobody cares, I have two proposals and an RfI I was supposed to send out today and I haven't and now it's 23:07 and I was up at 5:45 to cram in some work before the toddler was awake. And he watched LOADS of tv so I could work this morning, and it's so shit for him and his development.

I want to scream tonight. No fucking down time.

Open the fucking nurseries and childminders please, this is not sustainable.

What about the adults who work in the nurseries. Don't their lives matter? They don't want to catch it - it can KILL you.

I don't know - perhaps leave it up to the individual employees? Our childminder is happy to go back, she's waiting to hear on Sunday so I'll be there at 8 on the dot.

I just can't any more. It's not possible to work and take care of a tiny child at the same time. I have no real down time - even if I'm spending the hour after dinner watching a tv program with my husband, I'm feeling guilty because I'm so behind. It's shit. Just really shit. I have no answers, I'm just posting because this is a thread populated by people who are in the same boat and I'm sick of pretending to be coping when I am actually not.

Yeah @LavenderLilacTree so can a metric fuckton of other disease 🤷‍♀️

I'm expecting us to open soon. Otherwise be no jobs to go back to. We closed cause not enough key children to justify staying up but now furlough rules have changed and using I think part nursery funds or something to pay..it wont last forever.

The ' I can't work this kills you'

Well, so does flu.

If you are in the risk category

Are you?

If not, then no more chance of killing you than run over by a bus, car crash, heart attack or anything else for you age/risk group.

If the whole world behaves in this way there is no hope

Agree with @my2bundles.

They are telling schools nothing so how on earth can they plan to reopen them

And speculation by the press is not a leak.

AT THE MOMENT nurseries and primaries ARE more important to revive the economy

Why? 13% of workers have small children

That means 87% of workers do not need childcare to return to work.

Parents of small children are not more important to the economy than any other group.

*What about the adults who work in the nurseries. Don't their lives matter? They don't want to catch it - it can KILL you.
*
Id suggest they find a new career if they are concerned.

Ok @GreenTulips I'm sure it'd be totally fine to suddenly find 13% of the workforce unemployed.

Let's let under 5s starve and live in poverty. What do they matter. As long as nobody dies from covid, eh.

Not to mention employers having to fill 13% of their positions. Which might not be an issue for some industries but a nightmare for specialists.

They are telling schools nothing so how on earth can they plan to reopen them

Because there are three weeks between this Sunday and 1 June. Which is significantly longer notice than the schools were given to close.

I had a call from my two year olds nursery yesterday. Nothing set in stone but told me to keep an eye on things and they are hoping for a June re open.

Let's wait untill Sunday shall we? Everything is pure speculation right now. The press have no idea what will be announced. Green tulips is right, parents of small children are no more important than any other group in employment. Their education is no more important than the education of secondry school kids. When schools go back ito likely to be phased and be patient if your child's year group don't go back first. It will be phased to protect children and staff and prioritise essential year groups and where they are in their education, it won't be to take outside school employment into account.

it will be phased to protect children and staff and prioritise essential year groups and where they are in their education, it won't be to take outside school employment into account

If you believe that you're very naive.

Schools will plan accordingly to what's essential to them eg staff safety, child safety and priority year groups. If you think differently it's you who is naive.