Nursery World - EXCLUSIVE - Coronavirus: More than 20 per cent of early years staff off work last week

Around one in five early years staff were off work due to Covid during the first week of the new term, a new snap poll by the National Day Nurseries Association has found.

The NDNA snap poll found around one in five staff were absent from early years settings due to Covid at the beginning of the month PHOTO Adobe Stock

Findings from the NDNA poll, shared exclusively with Nursery World, reveal that across the 471 early years settings that responded, an average of 22 per cent of staff were absent from work because of Coronavirus.

Around 23 per cent of those that took part had a third or more of their staff off, while 3 per cent of respondents had more than 80 per cent of their staff absent in the course of the week.

The online poll collected data for the week commencing 3 January.

A breakdown of the findings per country shows, on average, that settings in England had more staff off than those in Scotland and Wales.

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