Press Coverage 2021
22 December
- Nursery World: Hopes and dreams for early years in 2022 and beyond
- daynurseries.co.uk: Early year chiefs welcome renewed sick pay benefit but 'concerned' sector loses out on business grants
- CYP Now: Provider survey reveals scale of childcare workforce crisis
17 December
- Nursery World: Early years settings warn of an impending 'crisis' as Covid worsens staff shortages
- Nursery World: Under-fives advised to get PCR test 'immediately' if they live with someone with Covid-19
16 December
- Nursery World: Ofsted briefing highlights early years catch-up strategies
15 December
- The Metro: Covid: NHS, schools and transport facing tidal wave of staff shortages from Omicron
- daynurseries.co.uk: Covid-hit nurseries shutdown as government exempts under 5s from testing and self-isolation
- NMT: Covid cases in nurseries at all time reported high
14 December
- The Sun: Fears nurseries could close as Covid cases hit all-time high with 38% rise in a WEEK
- CYP Now: Covid-19 cases in nurseries hit record high
10 December
8 December
- daynurseries.co.uk: Nurseries boost outdoor play as children lose physical confidence in pandemic, finds Ofsted
7 December
- Nursery World: Ofsted 'must take account of ongoing pandemic in inspection'
- daynurseries.co.uk: Early years settings in London to take part in survey to understand 'disruption' caused by pandemic
4 December
- The Telegraph: ‘I took out a £10k loan to pay for childcare’: crippling costs force women out of work
3 December
- CYP Now: ‘Severe’ early years workforce shortage sparks childcare crisis, EYA data shows
- daynurseries.co.uk: 'Exhausted' nursery staff are quitting, leaving 8 in 10 nurseries struggling with shortages
- NMT: Parents face childcare disruption as early years staffing shortages reach crisis point
- Nursery World: London nurseries and childminders urged to take part in survey to understand the pressures they face
- NMT: Strong Early Years London has launched its second quarterly survey
2 December:
- Nursery World: Survey highlights 'sector-wide' early years workforce crisis
1 December
- ITV Online: Growing disruption for childcare services due to staff shortages and underfunding
- daynurseries.co.uk: New shadow education secretary urged to be 'powerful advocate for early years'
30 November
- Nursery World: Loss of childcare places highest in South West
- Nursery World: Early years funding is ‘treading water’, finds report
- Nursery World: Bridget Phillipson appointed shadow education secretary
28 November
- CYP Now: Under-fives adversely impacted by Covid-19 pandemic, study shows
- CYP Now: Data reveals government underspend of £2.3bn on tax-free childcare
26 November
- daynurseries.co.uk: Don't use new funding rates to 'short-change' early years warn nurseries
- CYP Now: DfE confirms increase in funding rates for childcare places
- Nursery World: Government reveals £2.4 billion underspend on Tax-Free Childcare
- Nursery World: New research illustrates the negative impact of the pandemic on young children
25 November
23 November
- Nursery World: A special report on: Childminding
- Nursery World: Analysis: Doubts raised over the impact of next year's rise in funding
- Nursery World: Children with SEND in the early years: will they fall through the cracks?
18 November
- Nursery World: Alliance launches toolkit to help settings get through a 'demanding' winter
- Early Years Educator: Alliance launches ‘Winter Toolkit’ to help early years settings face seasonal challenges
- daynurseries.co.uk: Alliance launches new 'Winter Toolkit' to help early years settings through the colder months
11 November
- TES: New DfE SEND advisor group to deliver review 'at pace'
- Schools Week: SEND review 'steering group' appointed to push reforms
9 November
- Early Years Educator: Parents struggling to access essential services
5 November
- daynurseries.co.uk: COP26 Summit: Children to be at 'the heart' of tackling climate change
- Nursery World: COP26 Summit: Fight against climate change put at the 'heart of education'
29 October
- Nursery World: DfE to reform Level 3 early years qualifications
28 October
- CYP Now: Children’s minister confirms £340m funding boost for early years not announced in Spending Review
- TES: EYFS funding: What the Budget means for early years settings
- EYE: Autumn Spending Review 2021: £170m pledged for early years providers
- daynurseries.co.uk: Budget: Nurseries welcome extra £510m for early years over next three years
27 October
- BBC News: Budget 2021: Schools cash to be restored to 2010 levels after 10 years of cuts
- The Metro: Autumn Budget 2021: Families to get £300,000,000 in 'Start for Life' campaign
- The Mirror: Autumn Budget 2021 predictions - and what spending review could mean for you
- The Mirror: Budget 2021: Nursery owner applying for second job to pay staff after minimum wage hike
- NMT: Budget 2021: Minimum wage to rise to £9.50 an hour
- Byline Times: Autumn Budget: Women and Children First?
26 October
- CYP Now: Spending Review: Concerns National Living Wage increase 'will not support young people'
- daynurseries.co.uk: Spending Review: Chancellor gives £500m for families but no extra funding for 'free' childcare
- Nursery World: A special report on - Being sustainable
- Nursery World: Nursery Management Supplement: Technology - What’s changed?
25 October
- Nursery World: Spending Review 2021: £500m earmarked for children and families
- Nursery World: ‘National living wage’ rise from April will lead to 'fear and worry' for nurseries
24 October
- The Express: Rishi Sunak's £500m family package isn't enough, says sector chief - 'Crumbling structure'
23 October
- BBC.co.uk: Budget 2021: Ministers pledge £500m to support young families
- The Guardian: Rishi Sunak to announce £500m package for families | Autumn budget 2021
14 October
- daynurseries.co.uk: Childcare investment would boost working mums' annual income by £10bn
- NMT: Report: Women in the labour market
10 October
- i News: Childcare costs: Pleas for system to be overhauled with working parents spending half of their wages
7 October
- BBC News: Covid: New parents still struggling to access support, MPs say
- Nursery World: MPs urge ministers to look at ways to provide 'greater security' to childcare sector
- daynurseries.co.uk: High cost of childcare 'predates' and will 'outlast' Covid-19 warn MPs
4 October
- Nursery World: Ministers reportedly planning to change staff: child ratios for under-twos 'to cut childcare costs'
- daynurseries.co.uk: Early years leaders warn they will fight ministers' plans to relax childcare ratios to cut costs
- CYP Now: Sector leaders vow to oppose relaxation of childcare ratios
29 September
- Nursery World: Labour conference: Starmer promises to launch a 'National Excellence Programme' for education
- The Conversation: Why the UK childcare system is at breaking point
24 September
22 September
- Nursery World: Early years attendance levels continue to be lower than pre-Covid
- Early Years Educator: Number of children attending early years settings remains lower than normal
21 September
- daynurseries.co.uk: Millions of parents struggle to get 'life-changing' help for under fives in pandemic
- Early Years Educator: Millions of parents of under-fives could be missing out on ‘lifeline’ early years support
- Nursery World: Survey of half a million children finds most are happy with their life
20 September
19 September
- The Sunday Times: Childcare is a mess. Who will tidy it up?
17 September
- Nursery World: New early years minister announced in PM's reshuffle
16 September
- daynurseries.co.uk: New education minister Nadhim Zahawi urged not to 'overlook' nurseries like predecessor Gavin Williamson
- Nursery World: London Mayor's business support programme expands with new online hub for early years settings
15 September
- Nursery World: Nadhim Zahawi appointed education secretary
13 September
- The Week: Five big problems with the UK’s childcare system
- Nursery World: Most parents think the Government does not provide enough childcare support
8 September
- Nursery World:Children starting Reception face 'the most challenging school start for generations'
- CYP Now: Reception pupils ‘least school ready for generations’ due to pandemic, warns charity
- Early Years Educator: Extension to early years training programme announced by DfE
7 September
6 September
- Nursery World: Wales extends business rates relief for nurseries until 2025
2 September
- Early Years Educator: New publication supports providers to embed social responsibility into early years curriculum
1 September
- Nursery Management Today: Education settings to receive carbon dioxide monitors
31 August
- CYP Now: Briefing: Childcare funding dispute
27 August
- Nursery World: Nurseries and pre-schools will receive air quality monitors next term
- daynurseries.co.uk: Nurseries in England to receive CO2 monitors next term to help prevent the spread of Covid
26 August
- Daily Mirror: One in six parents 'cutting back on working hours' in struggle to find childcare
- Nursery World: Poorer families struggling to access childcare - survey
- daynurseries.co.uk: Poorer families struggle to access childcare and feel unsupported by government policies, new poll finds
- Family Friendly Working: Struggle to access childcare hits poorer families harder as government policies leave parents stressed and anxious
25 August
- The i: Quarter of parents with under-fives struggling to balance work and childcare because of lack of nurseries
- The Mirror: One in six parents 'cutting back on working hours' in struggle to find childcare
- Evening Standard: Parents struggle to balance work and childcare with poorest families hit hardest
- Personnel Today: Childcare issues force one in six to cut work hours
- CYP Now: Early years settings and special schools to benefit from ventilation plan
23 August
- Early Years Educator: DfE invest £25 million in carbon dioxide monitors
19 August
- Daily Mail Online: New study shows almost quarter of a million worse-off children are 'locked out' of nursery education
- Nursery World: Make 30 hours funded childcare universal to close the attainment gap
- CYP Now: Poorest children ‘locked out’ of early years education, Sutton Trust warns
- daynurseries.co.uk: A quarter of a million poor children 'locked out' of free nursery education
- Education Business: Thirty-hour funded childcare benefits more advantaged families
- workingmums.co.uk Sutton Trust highlights early years childcare disadvantages
- Wales Online: Experts warn England’s poorest children 'locked out' of early years services
- PLMR (blog): A Fair Start? Sutton Trust calls on the Government to extend the 30-hour early education entitlement
17 August
- daynurseries.co.uk: Babies and young children with Sure Start access are less likely to be hospitalised in teens
16 August
- Daily Mail Online: Early years centres prevent thousands of hospital admissions, report finds
- Evening Standard: Early years centres prevent thousands of hospital admissions, report finds
- The Mirror: Sure Start centres stopped 13,000 children a year going to hospital before Tory cuts
- Morning Star: Sure Start cuts ‘will see more kids in hospital’
- Nursery World: Study finds Sure Start benefitted children’s long-term health
- CYP Now: Sure Start: Major research reveals long-term health benefits of programme
12 August
- daynurseries.co.uk: Nearly half of all working mums are being paid below their salary grade because of lack of childcare
10 August
- NMT: Alliance files new ICO complaint following DfE refusal to release new funding information
- daynurseries.co.uk: More than 40% early years settings in England have had to close due to self-isolation
6 August
- CYP Now: EYA alerts regulator over DfE ‘refusal’ to release funding information
- daynurseries.co.uk: Watchdog complaint filed against DfE for breaking promise to share nursery funding sums
- Grazia: You have the power to fix our broken childcare system
4 August
- Nursery World: Early years Alliance files complaint over DfE refusal to release funding data
- CYP Now: Key resources to support play in children
3 August
- Evening Standard: Pingdemic: Third of London’s early years care forced to shut due to isolation
- NMT: Staffing shortages force four in 10 nurseries and childminders to close, survey finds
- Nursery World: Staff Health & Wellbeing: Part 4 - Body and soul
- Nursery World: Revised EYFS - In focus… Understanding the World
- Nursery World: Qualifications Levels: Part 2 - Stepping up
- Bradford Telegraph & Argus: Bradford to introduce 200 new parent and baby groups after pandemic
2 August
- Early Years Educator: ‘Pingdemic’ risks leaving critical workers without childcare
- CYP Now: 'Pingdemic' forces four in 10 nurseries to close, providers warn
- Nursery World: Coronavirus: ‘Pingdemic’ risks leaving key workers without childcared
1 August
28 July
27 July
- Independent.co.uk: Pingdemic leaves nurseries in ‘chaos’ with many forced to suspend provision
- CYP Now: Pandemic recovery: sector bodies outline their priorities for action
- daynurseries.co.uk: Covid cases rocket in nurseries as managers demand isolation exemption
- NMT: Early years representatives call for critical status for practitioners
23 July
- daynurseries.co.uk: Early years leaders 'disappointed' nursery workers are not on self-isolation exemption list
21 July
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daynurseries.co.uk: Early years leaders call on government to set 'clear consistent' rules regarding self isolation
14 July
- The Guardian: Two-thirds of working mothers lack summer childcare – UK survey
- Grazia: 77% Of Parents Say Cost Has Prevented Them Accessing The Childcare They Need
- daynurseries.co.uk: All nurseries need a mental health and wellbeing policy, says report
- Nursery World: Call for nurseries to be more open about staff mental health
- Nursery World: Coronavirus: London nurseries and childminders urged to take part in recovery survey
8 July
- Nursery World: Cross-party MPs call for greater post Covid support for early years
- CYP Now: Early Years Commission: Ending child poverty central to improving support by 2030
- daynurseries.co.uk: Boris Johnson urged to 'level up' for young children by 2030
6 July
- NMT: Early years sector responds to education secretary’s statement
- Nursery World: Coronavirus: Sector raises alarm over measures replacing education 'bubbles'
- daynurseries.co.uk: 'Huge sigh of relief' for nurseries after self-isolation rule and bubbles scrapped
- daynurseries.co.uk: Bubbles and contact isolation at schools and nurseries will end on 19 July
- daynurseries.co.uk: Black lives matter and children suffer racism at nursery too say mums
3 July
2 July
- daynurseries.co.uk: New figures show early years funded place registrations 'sharply' dropped during pandemic
- NMT: Fall in demand for free childcare places
- TheConversation.com: Why early-years education must be prioritised in pandemic recovery plans
30 June
- daynurseries.co.uk: Government underfunding claims closure of 3,300 childcare providers in the last year
- NMT: Ofsted release statistics for Q1 of 2021
- Nursery World: Ofsted figures show ongoing fall in childcare provider numbers
- CYP Now: Early years leaders back plans to scrap isolation rules
29 June
- The Telegraph: Letters | Children after Covid
- Nursery World: Analysis: The fallout from the Alliance investigation stokes calls for funding review
- Nursery World: Safeguarding - Behind closed doors
- Nursery World: Staff Health & Wellbeing: Part 3 - Levelling up
- Nursery World: Qualification Levels: Part 1 - Starting out
28 June
- daynurseries.co.uk: Early years chiefs say government's dismissal of childcare funding petition 'beggars belief'
- NMT: Government dismisses petition for early years funding review
- Nursery World: Investing in the future (Sadiq Khan)
24 June
- Mumsnet: “Our investigation found that ministers knowingly underfunded childcare - and parents have been paying the price.”
- CYP Now: Government dismisses call for childcare funding review
- Nursery World: Government dismisses childcare funding petition signed by 110,000
- Nursery World: MPs call on Government to carry out 'meaningful review' of early years funding
- Nursery World: Peers call on Government for better support for babies and young children
21 June
- The Guardian: Letters | Sadly, children’s services are not a political priority
- Early Years Educator: National Week of Play launched by Early Years Alliance
- Nursery World: 'Discover the Power of Play'
- Nursery World: Take part in the National Week of Play from 21-27 June
- CYP Now: Early Years Alliance launches national week of play
19 June
- Nursery World: Duchess of Cambridge launches early years research centre
16 June
- Nursery World: Government treatment of early years sector during pandemic 'unforgivable’
- CYP Now: Government ‘knowingly underfunded free childcare’, EYA investigation reveals
15 June
- The Guardian: Ministers ‘knowingly underfunding’ childcare sector in England | Early years education
- The Guardian: Tuesday briefing: Australia-UK trade deal served up
- The Telegraph: Officials knew free childcare could push up nursery fees
- The Mirror: Tory government secretly predicted their own childcare scheme would push up prices
- The Week: Ten Things You Need to Know Today: 15 June 2021
- Grazia: Childcare Funding Investigation: 'It Is Only By Working Together, That We Can Force The Government To Admit Its Failings And Address This Problem'
- The Canary: Ministers accused of 'covering up' underfunding of early years education
- Morning Star: New data shows ministers knew early years was underfunded
- Government Business Ministers knew early years was underfunded
- EarlyYears Educator: Shocking documents on early years underfunding
- Nursery World: Government 'knowingly underfunded' the early years sector
- Nursery World: 'Tragic' figures' show more than 2,500 early years settings have closed
- NMT: Government ministers knew scale of early years underfunding
- daynurseries.co.uk: Ministers 'knowingly' underfunded 'free childcare' and knew parents would face higher costs
- feNews: Sector Response to the Early Years Alliance report on early years education funding
21 May
- Early Years Educator: Report published on Covid-related spending on education in England
- NMT: Early years responds to a report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies
20 May
- ITV online: Lack of playtime with peers has negatively affected young children, parents warn
- The independent: Lack of playtime has negatively affected young children, say parents
- TES: Lockdown lack of play harmed young pupils, parents say
- Daily Mail: Lack of playtime with peers has negatively affected young children, parents warn
- Daily Mail: A fifth of pre-school children have seen their physical development impaired because they could not run around outside during lockdown, new study suggests
- daynurseries.co.uk: Charity calls for 30 hours of free childcare for poorer children to recover from pandemic
19 May
- NMT: Concern for disadvantaged children as Covid-19 disruption widens attainment gap
- NMT: Alliance responds as Labour highlights early years provider closures
17 May
- Daily Mail: Parents and babies mix with peers in larger groups after `isolating´ lockdown
- Evening Standard: Parents and babies mix with peers in larger groups after ‘isolating’ lockdown
14 May
- Sky News: COVID-19: Fears of a 'partially lost generation' as gap widens between pre-schoolers
- Evening Standard: Three in five workers say pre-school children are behind with early development
- Nursery World: Coronavirus: Nurseries and childminders report widening attainment gap among disadvantaged under-fives
- MailOnline: Under-fives are forgetting how to play with toys or put on their shoes as more miss learning goals since Covid pandemic began, early-learning workers say
11 May
- daynurseries.co.uk: Nurseries 'warmly welcome' pledge in Queen's Speech to bring forward measures 'prioritising' early years
- NMT: Early years organisations respond to The Queen’s Speech
4 May
- Nursery World: Parents 'will be turned away' due to Level 3 staffing crisis
- daynurseries.co.uk: Outstanding nursery owner says: 'I haven't been able to recruit a Level 3 since 2019'
- Nursery World: Business - HR issues during Covid
- Nursery World: Staff Health & Well-Being: Part 1 - The state we’re in
27 April
- Evening Standard: Majority of parents say funding is not enough for nurseries to stay sustainable
- Yorkshire Evening Post: Families are being failed by lack of funding - YEP letters | Yorkshire Evening Post
- daynurseries.co.uk: Lack of government support for early years sector could put England's economic recovery at risk
- Nursery World: 9 in 10 parents think early years sector underfunded - MPs' survey
23 April
- daynurseries.co.uk: Labour launches 'big conversation' on early years and attacks government for slashing spending
1 April
30 March
- CYP Now: From crisis in the early years to a fairer start: could we close the school readiness gap by 2030?
- Nursery World: Business - Occupancy and funding
24 March
17 March:
16 March
- Social Care Today: Children’s commissioner launches ‘once in a generation’ review
15 March
- CYP Now: Coronavirus restrictions discriminate against children, campaigners warn
- daynurseries.co.uk: Union calls on government to lift childcare burden from working mums
11 March
9 March
- daynurseries.co.uk: Parents see childcare costs rise by 4% as nurseries struggle to stay sustainable during pandemic
- Nursery World: Childcare costs rise above inflation, as providers struggle to remain sustainable
- NMT: Report: Childcare costs surge by 4% over the last year
8 March
4 March
3 March 2021
- NMT: Nurseries and childminders face £247m funding cut for spring term, new analysis reveals
- NMT: Budget 2021: absence of new measures for eary years
- Nursery World: Budget 2021: Business rates relief extension will include nurseries
- daynurseries.co.uk: Chancellor's Budget extends business rates holiday and furlough but nurseries will struggle to plug Spring's funding gap
2 March
- Nursery World: Coronavirus: Early years sector faces predicted losses of a quarter of a billion pounds this term
- daynurseries.co.uk: Chancellor urged to use Budget to support nurseries facing £247m funding cut
1 March
26 February
- The Mirror: Teachers and police blast vaccine priority list - key groups that aren't bumped up
- The Times: Over-40s to be offered Covid vaccine in April
- daynurseries.co.uk: Hope that nursery staff will be prioritised for COVID vaccine 'sadly crushed' by government
23 February
- Nursery World: Coronavirus: DfE updates early years guidance in response to PM 'roadmap'
- Daynurseries.co.uk: All PVI nursery staff will be given COVID home-testing kits in March
22 February
- Metro: Can nursery workers get the Covid vaccine?
- Nursery World: Coronavirus: All PVI nurseries to be sent home-testing kits
19 February
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Early Years Educator: Opinion: Feeling worn down?
18 February
- TES: Covid jabs: 'Education staff should be prioritised'
- CYP Now: Education catch up plans across all uk nations 'do not go far enough'
16 February
- CYP Now: Sadiq Khan warns thousands of London's early years providers fear closure within a year
- Nursery World: Coronavirus: Nurseries speak out about confusion over priority for vaccine
12 February
- Evening Standard: Two-thirds of London nurseries are on verge of closure
- daynurseries.co.uk: London Mayor warns Chancellor two thirds of capital's nurseries could shut within the year
11 February
- CYP Now: Nursery staff call for training to deal with complex mental health needs in under-fives
- daynurseries.co.uk: Trauma and abuse facing children leave nursery workers feeling ill-equipped
8 February
- CYP Now: Providers renew calls for covid-19 testing in all early years settings
- The Independent: Nursery staff at risk with Covid spreading like ‘wildfire’ due to lack of tests, sector leaders warn
- daynurseries.co.uk: Childcare workers get COVID tests in Wales but England's workforce left out in the cold
- daynurseries.co.uk: COVID-19 cases in England's nurseries almost double in a week to 2,357
5 February
- Nursery World: The Nursery World Awards 2020 winners revealed!
3 February
- Nursery World: Coronavirus: Nurseries report increase in temporary closures
1 February
- daynurseries.co.uk: One in five nursery staff considering leaving profession due to Covid stress
- Nursery World: Coronavirus: One in five early years workers 'want to leave the sector' - survey
31 January
- The Observer: Covid stress ‘driving hundreds of childcare workers to quit profession'
- Vogue: One Of The Hardest Parts About Parenting In A Pandemic? Intense Decision Fatigue
26 January
22 January
- BBC.co.uk: Covid: Early years staff safety 'cause for concern'
- Evening Standard: Half of early years staff do not feel safe at work during lockdown, study finds
- The i: Nursery workers treated with ‘contempt’ by Government over Covid concerns in lockdown, shadow minister says
- Tyla.com: Nursery Workers Say Staff Feel 'Worthless' And 'Undervalued' During Lockdown 3.0
21 January
20 January
- CYPnow: Early years leaders hit out at contradictory government advice on home testing
- Nursery World: Government adviser incorrectly says all early years staff eligible for regular testing
- daynurseries.co.uk: Nurseries fear for staff safety and financial survival, minister warned
18 January
- Huffpost: Ministers Accused Of 'Punishing' Nurseries That Fail To Stay Open To All Children
- daynurseries.co.uk: Ditch 'childcare' word to help undervalued, low paid and overworked early years workforce
15 January
- daynurseries.co.uk: Government adviser incorrectly says all early years staff eligible for regular testing
14 January:
- Nursery World: Coronavirus: Dismay as early years staff told they won't be sent testing kits
- daynurseries.co.uk: COVID-19: Nurseries angry over government's refusal to give PVI nursery staff home test kits
13 January
12 January
- The Mirror: Nurseries forced to operate at high capacity during lockdown or risk going bust
- Sky News: COVID-19: Nurseries want priority access to testing and vaccines
- MailOnline: `No intention´ by Government to close nurseries, says Education Secretary
- MailOnline: Less than three quarters of state secondary pupils stayed in lessons in week before Christmas as attendances plummeted, figures show
11 January
- BBC.co.uk: Covid-19: Early years staff 'should have vaccine priority'
- daynurseries.co.uk: Early years leaders welcome rapid testing for all nursery staff across England
- Nursery World: Early years settings will be given rapid Covid-19 testing kits
10 January
8 January
- CYP Now: Early years leaders campaign for increased protection to open during lockdown
- The Independent: Lockdown: Nursery staff fear for health as early year providers told to stay open while schools shut
- Evening Standard: Nursery workers feel ‘abandoned’ by Government after schools ordered to close
- daynurseries.co.uk: Childcare boss calls for Covid test kits given to schools to be redistributed to nurseries
7 January
- BBC.co.uk: 'Show us it's safe' to be open, say nursery staff
- LBC.co.uk: Nurseries are "Covid-secure", insists Priti Patel
6 January
- BBC.co.uk: 'Very little' virus risk at nurseries, says vaccine minister
- The Times: Scientists say nurseries should close for coronavirus lockdown
- MailOnline: Nurseries opt for partial closures amid safety fears, says Early Years Alliance
- The Mirror: Lockdown 'not enough' as experts demand nurseries close and return of two-metre rule
5 January
- The Guardian: Unison calls for nurseries in England to close amid third Covid lockdown
- Daily Express: Why do nurseries stay open in lockdown?
- MailOnline: Decision to keep nurseries open may have been political - expert
- The Yorkshire Post: Why are nurseries staying open in Lockdown? Early years settings are still open despite school closures
- daynurseries.co.uk: Nurseries get 'no words of support' as government keeps them open but closes all schools in England
- The Mirror: Keeping nurseries open in lockdown may have been 'political' decision, says SAGE expert