Nursery lockdown

[CChavez]

My friends are intensive critical care nurses. However, their local nursery said it won’t take their 3 year old DD in as it’s her settling period. As much as my friends would like to help their hospital due to increasing number of patients, they are stuck due to childcare. I just feel sorry for them as the government says nursery should stay open for key workers. It’s Worse for their DD. One day, whilst at the park she tried joing a group of kids who are playing, but obviously it’s not allowed and it broke her parents heart...they’re very worried about her early years development especially the social interaction side of it. is your local nursery closed too? Anyone in this similar situation?

Dh and I are both key workers.amd have been dealing with the public front line throughout the pandemic. Our Ds age 3 started nursery on Monday and was sent home to isolate on Tuesday as he'd been in contact with a positive test. Now dh can't go to work as he was isolating with him and I am waiting the result of a covid test as I have symptoms so can't leave the house either. Maybe the nurseries need to look at where the positive cases are coming from!

In England, all nurseries are allowed to be open. Ours has been open since June (obviously required to be closed in first lockdown except to key worker children), never had a case or a need to close. Are you in Scotland? I think perhaps it's different there.

But of course, nurseries can set their own rules too based on staffing and what they are able to do. If they don't have enough staff willing to work (due to self-isolation, sickness, or being worried about social distancing), there isn't much they can do. Can they look for a childminder instead? Or another nursery?

Thank you for all your replies. They are looking into contacting nearby nurseries and ask (or beg!) for help. It's too late but hopefully one of them can help.