How is Covid impacting nurseries?
Nina was just 21 when she opened her first nursery. She's been providing childcare for more than 20 years, but now fears for the future. "I used to work for my nana, she was a childminder and I was her assistant and the dream and the passion just went from there," she says.
Janique, who owns a hair salon in Stockport, has a two-year-old daughter who attends Nina's Nursery. However, when it closes because of staff shortages, she can't go to work and her daughter's routine is broken. Each notification covers a single site and can be for more than one case. The latest figures represent a significant jump in cases.Unlike older children and adults, there is no requirement for under-fives to isolate or take daily lateral flow tests if they have been in close contact with someone who has tested positive for Covid.
"It's very, very difficult to determine then which of those children may have Covid, may not have Covid, they may be asymptomatic… because we are not doing that testing."On Tuesday, in response to staff shortages, the government relaxed rules on the number of children staff are allowed to look after.
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