Anyone know about nurseries

[babysnowman]

Has anyone heard anything about when regular nurseries might reopen for non key workers?

I know the schools are on 11 August, wondering if nurseries will be around the same time.

In phase 3 but no date was given other than a vague 'over the summer' comment.

My colleague said her private nursery is intending to open for preschoolers in Aug, but won't be taking babies until October .

Ours will release more information once they receive guidance being published by government and care inspectorate which. Is due out on 15th June so next week.
We had a survey from nursery this week about whether we'd send our kids back, what would and us feel comfortable, what sessions we'd want, etc

I have my fingers crossed for mid July maybe. Working from home with kids around is hell so the sooner the better for us

Bloody blended learning is on the rude word list in this house.

I still don't know what the fear is.. is it kids are dirty, germ ridden super spreaders? Or have they suddenly become a high risk group?

@TitianaTitsling who knows. The evidence points to kids not being affected (mine is statistically much more likely to die in the 20min drive there and back) and potentially not being super spreaders either. Yes there is a risk but to me the screwing up of their mental health and development is so much worse I'll take the risk.
Soon we'll be able to go to shops and pubs but they still can't go nursery. Makes no sense to me.

It makes absolutely no sense at all. Preschoolers are essentially unaffected by the virus, don't really spread it, and the modelling shows very little effect on the R number by letting them go back. It seems lazy in the extreme to lump all children together in the way they are doing. I have written to my MSP asking for the rationale, but have got nowhere.

Mid July sounds good, October for babies though sounds 😱

Has anyone heard if parents can go in for settling in?

If it’s October for babies I will lose my job and it’s as simple as that.

Fucking joke situation.

Guidance is released on Monday. Quite a number of my friends will spend the first few days reading the guidance then working with their teams to work out how to put that guidance into action regarding their setting. I know most hope to have an idea before the schools finish.

The settling thing concerns me. My 1yo has never been in nursery, and barely gone a day without me, so will need proper settling, and the older one is pretty timid so may well need some settling back too. It's utter shite that they've been given no official guidance yet.

Scot Gov are releasing further guidance for early learning/nurseries on Monday, 15th. So there should be more infor then.

Thanks Grovee

Same here Sam. Let's hope it 's good news re settling in, my nursery just confirmed there 's no social distancing for under 5s so hopefully we can go in for settling in.

Thanks for the thread OP, interested to look out for the guidance tomorrow

I don’t have high hopes going by the rest of the Scottish govt’s strategies so far...

Yep my nursery has advised stage 3 too, at the moment I'm thinking it'll probably be the same time as schools.

I called the nursery the other day and wasn’t able to get a clear answer.

Our nursery doesn’t know either. Said they were waiting for this information being published tomorrow.

I worry that ours simply won’t reopen as it’s a small private nursery that already had money problemS before lockdown.

Hopefully we can at least get a good idea of dates tomorrow, the uncertainty is driving me mad

Does anyone know if the guidance for nurseries published today is available for the public to read? I can't find it.

@CaptainMerica it probably won't be published til last minute

www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-phase-3-guidance-on-reopening-early-learning-and-childcare-services/

Thanks @mybowelshatepregnancy, off to read

Thanks! @mybowelshatepregnancy