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I’d give up waiting if I were you, I’m not sure it’s even coming, I saw a post that someone’s county had asked DfE where it was and the reply was there ‘may’ be further guidance 🤷‍♀️

I reckon you’ve probably overwound by now 😝

Try not too, I do think you read what others are doing and think you should be doing the same, It just adds to the pressure, I can see you need a plan of how things might need to change and how you’ll manage your re-opening, I only have enough for one group to start with so will have a couple of weeks to plan what would need doing differently when enough to create that 2nd ‘bubble’, so I don’t feel to stressed to have all the answers straight off.

Hi, I don’t have a policy as such, more an action plan/risk assessment type thing of what will need to be considered and managed, still need to finalize when the specific EY guidance arrives, I’m then preparing a parent and a staff type declaration form but I must admit it makes me a little anxious when I read people are updating policies and contracts and think I’ve missed something (the illness policy is the only one I’m really planning on tweaking to include covid-19 -symptoms/isolation) if I have can someone let me know 🙈

Has anyone else worked out their next furlough to fee % and are now finding children from shared settings are opting for the other setting due to holiday clubs now your asking parents to commit to one or because I’m saying only household members can drop off/collect ...surely that still comes under national guidance at the moment doesn’t it? this is likely to change the % difference as I presume the other settings will want the funding from us....oh, I’m fed up with all this

I’m not with MM but it’s interesting that it was from 17th March and they were recognizing covid as part of their public liability cover but then wouldn’t pay out on many policies for loss of revenue as it wasn’t a recognized disease 🤔

🤬is my response to having a committee during all of this (well anytime really) DebBrad - I wish them luck ....dream world comes to mind 😉 I also included that one of our biggest concerns is that we don’t know where we stand with ‘your’ insurers if we open.

Yep Wednesday is bin day here too, and have checked myself a couple times today that it’s how I know it’s Wednesday.

“Oh dear, it must have gone to my spam folder”

Don’t answer it 🙈

It’s ridiculous isn’t it? The EYA spend so much time blowing it’s own trumpet .... they are fighting this, or fighting that for it’s members, how about it starts closer to home and looks into it’s own insurance shambles 😡

Don’t bother with the open-ed one I did....it was sooo boring, not a great format for online training, said 8 hrs (it was something to do with leadership and team working), you had to do a lot self reflection writing, I much prefer read something, answer questions, pass section.

I sent a thank you for responses, the initial group will be the confirmed ‘yes’ responses and more details will follow, if you hadn’t replied to the ‘urgent’ email sent a week ago it’s presumed you won’t be requiring a place ....within 20 mins 3 ‘not bothered’ had been in touch 🤦‍♀️

Hi, I know the Primary School guidance said Early Years would follow but I’m sure I’ve read it will be this Thursday ...but where did I read that 🤔

That’s good news, I hope RSA (EYA) come out with something to clarify 😟

I’ve had 9 or 10 not bothered answering, I’m going with my initial 8 yes (5 -7 a day), 3 full days, 1 group/2 staff for 2 weeks, see how we go and open up to more following that. I have 3 staff I could use (not furloughed) so not sure whether to bring them all in, have 2 with the group, 1 spare (can clean etc) and be ready to be the next bubble staff.

Don’t worry Lynned and I really don’t care if they audit me either ....good luck to them working it out from my calculations,, I’ve even got someone half furloughed for May now 😝 I’m sure they’ll regret coming to any of us! Staffing is giving me a bigger headache than any of it now, who should I take off furlough, who to keep on it, then it’s about who add up to the amount I can claim, a couple have chn but will that be enough to keep them on furlough when their chn could go to school as keyworkers...especially in the eyes of other staff I ask to work 🤦‍♀️

Haha will give it a go...I was just going to tell them I’m on the TV if it ever comes to wearing one 😝

There are some useful diy face shields on Pinterest ...you just need a laminated sheet a bit of double sided masking tape and a ribbon, maybe you could give that a go Blondie 👍

Do you think they’ll do that every night 🤣 googling coronavirus and sand brings up some interesting reads, if this one is believed we will al have to donate our sand, though not sure why they can’t just pop to the beach for a bit more 🧐

I’m just going to prep as if we will for the few and work on we’ll know what the position is in 2 weeks, if the cases and ‘R’ rate are going down or up, if going up still I can’t see it’s going to happen anyway, I’ll add a ‘this is subject to a last minute decision on 28th May’.

True, and it probably wasn’t taken as seriously as a number of other countries took it when locking down sooner, especially in light of the uk’s dense population, we’re only 5’ish x bigger than Denmark with 11 x higher population, Germany are half as big as us again with only 16m people .....but I still don’t know if that means we can have sand 🤣 our sand pit needs cleaning out and re-sanding anyway so not even convinced it’s worth bothering with now unless we have to go through holiday (GW seems to be playing his cards close on that one)

We keep hearing about references to how Denmark are doing it, well in the article from Denmark they are sat in the sandpit or ‘sand box’ as they called it in the article, and on FB an owner or manager had posted and answered questions (CNLF) on how they had been doing things all through and they use sand and other messy play and in the Dr Matt Buttler webinar I listened to someone asked about how often you should be cleaning and the answer was regular high contact areas and at the end of the day but it seemed more like rotating/quarantining resources was the sensible thing, I actually felt this was much more doable after listening to it :-)

From the webinar it seems all the things we’re removing (soft toys, rugs etc) hold the virus for the least time (6hrs) where as smoothest surfaces like stainless steel, glass, laminates could be up to 6 days but obviously can be cleaned easier with just a washing up liquid as it disperses the fats, then rinse cloths used down the sink so you wash the virus away, make surfaces wet before wiping/moping so you don’t move the dry virus around, interesting when talking about taking paper/homework books home to mark it said to leave them min 12hrs/24hrs better from the child finishing with it ..but every day it says on tv that letters and packages are not a problem? Talked about nappy changing side ways on, wipe away from you, use a ventilated area rather than a small 1 mt sq type space, if a child is likely to spit at you wear something like chemistry goggles. Teachers not being at the same level as chn where possible, think about how a cough or sneeze would arc, lower transmission between chn/less concern over not staying apart for youngest, more likely teacher to teacher transmission and why adults need to stay apart. Temperature checking on arrival not much point as by the time a raised temperature is a symptom it’s most likely to be day 4 or 5 already, glove wearing gives false sense of security/skin is your glove even cuts don’t make a difference - regular hand washing is still best thing and regular cleaning of high contact points - taps, door handles, pens, switches (involve older chn in this). It was worth listening too if you get a chance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2bEm_NvIpc&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop Does anyone keep expecting the ed minister to come out with “ummm Betty”

FM - I still haven’t had a response re insurance, it seems from others posts they are taking a ‘no one will be able to prove where someone caught it’🤷‍♀️ I’ve just spent an hour sat in the sun listening to a YouTube webinar with a Dr Matt Butler talking about transmission in younger chn and how to minimise transmission in schools/settings...really interesting 🧐