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?!

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

That’s not what I said - it was in response to OP’s suggestion that those with small children were to ‘most important’ to get the economy going again.

There are plants of workers available, without small children to keep the economy going... equally important

Plenty! Not plants

Yes but you're still condemning the under 5s and mainly women to poverty. That's ok though right?

Because even if the economy is ok regardless of parents of young children working, at least some of those young children will suffer.

But as long as nobody dies from Corona it's ok.

Bloody hell there is an absolute lack on reading comprehension here.

Saying nurseries opening allows parents of small kids to go back to work, whereas parents of older children may be able to go back to work without school opening

Does not equal:

Those individual parents are more important to the economy than parents of older kids.

And yeah, there may be plenty of workers without children to contribute to the economy, but what the fuck are all the single parents supposed to do if they are forced to go on unpaid leave?

Or the 2 parent families who's outgoings are based on 2 wages and not 1!

For us I can't afford to not work but we're not entitled to universal credit. One wage won't pay our bills.

There are plants of workers available, without small children to keep the economy going... equally important

Let's just make all the parents illegally redundant and hire non-parents in the same roles then! Lovely.

*Or the 2 parent families who's outgoings are based on 2 wages and not 1!

For us I can't afford to not work but we're not entitled to universal credit. One wage won't pay our bills.*

Same here. I can manage on redundancy pay for now but I don't think I have a cat in hell's chance of a new job right now thanks to attitudes like *There are plenty of workers without small children".

I know of two different people in two completely different parts of the country who have been told this week by their respective nurseries that they plan to reopen from start of June.

hammering redundancy would only last us about 2 months :(

And with no childcare I couldn't even get another job!

From the OP

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?

The reply was to the OP suggesting the economy is only going to recover when parents of small children can return to work

That suggests the other 87% of workers are irrelevant and no use to the economy

Let's just make all the parents illegally redundant and hire non-parents in the same roles then! Lovely

Nope - not suggesting they aren’t important, just not ‘THE MOST important as the OP suggested.

She didn't, as 99% of posters can see, but you're going to carry on wilfully misunderstanding so crack on.

Oh dear @GreenTulips, your reading comprehension skills are lacking. But do carry on!

Op - my uncle works in local government and they are prepping for start of June. Also my DH has been copied in loads of governor shit emails between the LEA and the schools around how things could happen in the last couple of days.

Obviously the government decide based on scientific advice but these two bits of news really helped me. At least something is happening behind the scenes.

That’s really useful @Wired4sound! The nursery owner sent a Tapestry update this morning saying they are aiming for a 1st June reopening, but will let us know if anything changes. Keeping everything crossed.