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Well what a totally strange year 2020 is turning out to be.

We have finally managed to get our entire September School intake attending school.  The School starts dates were carefully spread over September and into October to help with minimising the spread of the Covid Pandemic.

We have introduced some safeguarding measures in place here to help minimise the risk of infection of Covid and other infectious diseases.

2020 has been an ever changing world and we have what seems like new legislations to follow week in week out as the world develops trying to control the spread.

At the forefront of our care is all our children’s health, as the county restrictions are getting tighter, childcare settings with schools at this moment in time are able to remain open as usual. We have  lots of communication methods and strategies in place for regular health updates for everyone that attends.

As we approach Winter we all have to remain focused on the end goal and hopefully over the next few months we are able to have some control over the pandemic and start to get back to some normality, whatever the new normality actually means will be the results of all our actions now and in the next few months.

Our regular seasonal activities have not really been affected and we are trying our hardest to maintain normality on our educational and physical activities, however our playgroup sessions remain off limits at present time although we fulfil the outcomes of the playgroups sessions in our setting and  other outdoors areas.

We are certainly in unprecedented times and in this critical time we find ourselves in a very strange position.  Due to some of our fabulous parents listening to the Governments advises and staying at home we find ourselves supporting our parents that are Critical Key Workers Families and the companies that the parents work for & own. We have critical key workers from the NHS at lots of levels & Police Force, Banks and Financial institutions that must remain open for the health of the British Ecomony, we have Factory workers at all levels that are essential to provide medical labels and supplies for equipment that the country needs in our most frightening of times, we have parents that are critical in food production & distribution of food and distribution of all the life essentials that everyone needs to survive.

We are only able to provide childcare for the Critical Key Workers at this present time and any child deemed ‘vulnerable’. Vulnerable children include children who are supported by social care, those with safeguarding and welfare needs, including child in need plans, on child protection plans, ‘looked after’ children, young carers, disabled children and those with education, health and care (EHC) plans.

If your in need of childcare at this most difficult of times please give us a call.

By working together and paying attention we will beat this, we are in this together, together we are stronger.

We salute every key worker in the country for helping and trying to keep everyone safe, the world will forever be in your debt.  We support   “Clap for our Carers” at 8PM Every Thursday  until this terrible situation finishes.

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