If primary schools are closing why aren’t private nurseries?

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Genuine question as I’m trying to decide whether I should send my 3 year old back tomorrow. I’m on maternity leave so don’t need her to go but I do think it is good for her to go.

We live in an outer London borough where the primary schools are closed for another week, so why are private nurseries remaining open?

They’re closed in Scotland. I suspect bojo will follow suit shortly.

Probably because the government doesn’t want to have to help fund their closure.

I’ve just started mat leave and although I was happy to pay full rates throughout lockdown when they closed last time, if they are made to close this time I will be asking for some of the fees back/fees to be carried over to when they actually open again. As much as I would like to be able to support the business, I don’t have a spare £750 laying around to piss into nurseries pot without getting anything out of it

@Thegirlhasnoname - they aren't allowed to charge full fees, and should have offered you some refund:
www.gov.uk/government/publications/nursery-and-early-years-sector-covid-19-restrictions-and-consumer-law/nursery-and-early-years-sector-covid-19-restrictions-and-consumer-law-advice.

We're similarly torn about what to do; it's important for DS to go, but more disruptive for him to go for a week or two and then stop.

@Thegirlhasnoname I’m surprised you had to pay last time. My sons room had to isolate before Christmas and they’ve already refunded the money for the sessions she missed.

Private nurserys are probably smaller bubbles than primary schools so seen as less risky because its a smaller group that could become asymptomatic spreaders maybe?

Early years is different. My DS is in primary school.. DD is in a nursery attached to the school. DS isn’t going back and she is.. go figure!

Also they’re childcare mainly .. and childcare is allowed. Same as childminders.

Many nurseries wasn’t worth ir opening for them for kw parents and were losing money back in spring. If this happened again not sure they’d open this time

I'm sending DD to her private nursery. They've had no cases and even though it's a relatively large nursery, it's still much smaller than a primary school. I suspect nurseries are staying open because it's much harder to care for a nursery aged child than older children, working from home effectively just wouldn't be possible with a young baby, and even though DD is a toddler she needs more help than a school aged child with potty use, eating, keeping safe etc. I am not worried about sending her in, although perhaps I would be if any of our household were vulnerable.

It’s insane. There’s much less social distancing in a nursery than a primary school class. There’s also more adults in the room. So asymptotic kids can spread it to the adults and their family.
Our nursery has on average 25 kids and 7 adults in a room. No social distancing between adults or kids.