Data obtained by Labour, and shared with Nursery World, shows that in a month the number of settings with one or more confirmed weekly cases of coronavirus rose from 14 on 31 August to 181 on 28 September.
Number of registered early years and childcare providers reporting one or more confirmed cases of COVID-19 by week, starting 1 June 2020.
31/08/2020
14
07/09/2020
34
14/09/2020
87
21/09/2020
170
28/09/2020
181
Source: Ofsted
The figures were obtained by shadow early years and children’s minister Tulip Siddiq, who asked the education secretary in a parliamentary question about the number of Covid-19 outbreaks that had been reported in early years settings since 1 June.
The question was then referred to Ofsted for chief inspector Amanda Spielman to respond.
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