Keep all nurseries and early years settings open during lockdown

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Keep all nurseries and early years settings open during lockdown

Petition Details

Urgent call for the Government to keep all nurseries and early years settings open during the new lockdown. Nurseries and early years provide a vital service for pre-school children and parents. Parents will be economically affected if nurseries close, and children will be socially disadvantaged.

Additional Information

Research (such as the below) indicates that there is a very low risk of children contracting or transmitting SARS-CoV-2 in early years settings.

Study on living with children and outcomes from COVID-19:: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.01.20222315v1

Study on healthcare worker households: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.21.20196428v1

Study on the role of children in Covid-19 in household transmission: https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaa1825/6024998

Study on Open Schools, Covid-19, and Child and Teacher Morbidity in Sweden: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2026670

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