Nursery not reopening until mid July

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Im due back at work next week 15th June bht my nursery are choosing not to open until mid July. I can't stay on Furlough as work have work for me which can't be done from home.
What can i do? Unpaid leave? Try and find a new nursery?
This is more of a rant than anything as i think my partners going to have to take unpaid leave as he's worked through the pandemic.
Anybody else's nursery staying closed?

Mine is still closed with no date to reopen yet! I just wish they would give a date as we both work full time and are desperate for childcare, employers keep asking too.

I'd look for a new one ora childminder might tide you over ?

Or could the child's dad help out ?

In terms of a solution for us - the nursery is part of a big chain and so they offered other nurseries reasonably close. We managed to get them placed at one of those for a couple of day each week which helps.

Not a chain, yeah DH will take 3 weeks unpaid leave but its not ideal really! Yeah we went to see a nursery for his 3 year funding before this all began but wasn't very impressed, there was pottys full of wee laying around!
Not too sure on the solution, just slightly upset that his nursery hes beeb to fornthe last 2 years is choosing not to open!

Childminder?

Do childminders tend to take children on a temporary basis? Or would it have to be a permanent move in your experience?

Yes some childminders will take children short term....contact your local families information or childcare.co.uk.....you might actually find you prefer it,

I will have a look, yeah maybe my son has some hearing problems so liked the idea nursery would have a SENCO but for a short term fix, I'll check out the website you posted, thank you

A childminder is the SENCO of their setting.

When we visited kne before DS went to nursery, she said she didn't have one, so just presumed all childminders where the same, maybe my lack of looking around as a childminder would be better for flexibility!

A SENCO is just the person in a setting that co-ordinates any SEN referrals or paperwork - a childminder is the person that does that for her children, in a nursery they just have a specific worker who has that role.

Would any of the staff from your nursery come to your house?

Sympathies OP, it's crap, isn't it.

I'm a childminder trained senco trained in sign language, have done various language support course like ECAT and ELKAN. I'm also fully Portage trained and have extensive experience in many special needs. I've done referals and EHCPs attended team meetings etc. Nurseries dont have the monopoly on support and often the smaller more consistant setting can provide more individual support.