Nursery World - Sector unites in call for Government to protect early years settings and workers

Early years organisations have joined forces to call on the Government to take urgent action to protect the nurseries, pre-schools and childminders it has asked to stay open, in the wake of record cases of Covid-19.

Early years organisations want mass testing for nursery staff and priority access to Covid vaccinations for all early years workers

The move comes in light of the Government's decision to ask early years settings in England to remain open to all children during the third national lockdown, while ordering schools to close, except to key worker and vulnerable children.

Yesterday, 62,322 cases were recorded in the UK, which was the highest daily rise since mass testing began.

As part of the new joint #ProtectEarlyYears campaign, the three organisations, which collectively represent around 50,000 childcare providers, are calling on the Government to:

A petition calling for priority vaccinations for all early years workers and teachers has received more than 300,000 signatures to date and will be debated in Parliament on Monday.

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