Thanks you to all parents and carers for your patience yesterday whilst we organised which children can and cannot continue to attend our nursery from Monday 23rd March.
We hope that we have now been in contact with everybody. If not and you are unsure if your child can come to the nursery or not on Monday please contact us and we will clarify if your child meets 'vulnerable child' criteria or you are classed as a 'key worker'.
We will continue to open as normal from 7am to 6pm Monday to Friday for those children.
In order to prevent the spread of Coronavirus into our nursery we are changing the way children are dropped off and collected each day. We hope you will understand the importance of following the new guidelines and thank you all for your patience and understanding at this very difficult time.
TO ALL PARENTS AND CARERS
CORONAVIRUS PRECAUTIONS
TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF THE VIRUS IN OUR NURSERY WE ARE TAKING THE FOLLOWING PRECATIONS
FROM MONDAY 23RD MARCH 2020 A STAFF MEMBER WILL COLLECT AND RETURN YOUR CHILD AT THE DOOR.
DROP OFF
DROP OFF 7AM TO 8AM: PLEASE RING PRE-SCHOOL BUZZER.
DROP OFF AFTER 8AM: PLEASE RING YOUR CHILD’S ROOM BUZZER.
HOME TIME
COLLECTION BEFORE 5PM: PLEASE RING YOUR CHILD’S ROOM BUZZER.
COLLECTION BETWEEN 5PM AND 6PM: PLEASE RING PRE-SCHOOL BUZZER.
YOUR CO-OPERATION AND PATIENCE IS MUCH APPRECIATED
We will be making every effort today to contact parents regarding your child's place with us. However, please call us as soon as possible if you believe you are entitled to access childcare under the key worker and vulnerable child criteria.
https://www.education-ni.gov.uk/news/letter-minister-education-education-sector
Letter from Minister of Education to education sector 19 March 2020
Key workers are those who are maintaining essential public services during the Covid-19 response. The definition of key worker will be flexible and dependant on the circumstance and requirements over the course of this critical period. There will be flexibility shown on the definition of key workers to ensure all those who need support receive it. The list is not prescriptive. However, to give some guidance the following outlines the broad categories of what would be defined as a key worker;
• Health and Social Care. This includes doctors, nurses, midwives, paramedics, social workers, home carers and staff required to maintain our health and social care sector
• Education and childcare. This includes nursery and teaching staff, social workers and those specialist education professionals who will remain active during the Covid-19 response
• Public safety and national security. This includes civilians and officers in the police (including key contractors), Fire and Rescue Service, prison service and other national security roles
• Transport. This will include those keeping air, water, road and rail transport modes operating during the Covid-19 response
• Utilities and Communication. This includes staff needed for oil, gas, electricity and water (including sewage) and primary industry supplies, to continue during the Covid-19 response, as well as key staff in telecommunications, post and delivery, services and waste disposal
• Food and other necessary goods. This includes those involved in food production, processing, distribution and sale, as well as those essential to the provision of other key goods (e.g hygiene, medical etc)
• Other workers essential to delivering key public services
• Key national and local government including those administrative occupations essential to the effective delivery of the Covid-19 response
The aim is to keep the number of pupils coming into schools to a minimum. However, there will need to be some flexibility to ensure our key workers are supported. It is impossible to assess at this stage what the exact demand will be in relation to the number of key worker children who will need to attend school. Therefore we will monitor this closely, working with schools and other providers over the course of next week and to help make further decisions around staffing and other requirements moving forward.
With Coronavirus becoming more and more critical across the world, we wanted to keep you update to date on what you can do to help prevent the spread of Coronavirus.
Here's some information on Coronavirus in places of education.
Take a look at the PDF below with the latest information we have from the Early Years team at Lincolnshire.
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