Keep all nurseries and early years settings open during lockdown

Closed 739 signatures

What the petition asks

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.

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

Timeline

13 Jan 2021	Petition opened for signatures
13 Jul 2021	Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 739

Status Closed

Department Department for Education

Opened 13 Jan 2021

Closed 13 Jul 2021

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