Key Workers and Application for Cild Care

Key Workers and Childcare
Please remember that we are trying to maintain key workers while isolating the majority of remaining pupils. We will try to limit this group, in the first instance, to 10%. Priority will be given to Care and Health workers in the first instance. The Government guidance states “It is important to underline that schools … remain safe places for children. But the fewer children making the journey to school, and the fewer children in educational settings, the lower the risk that the virus can spread and infect vulnerable individuals in wider society…..If it is at all possible for children to be at home, then they should be” .

In order to access childcare you will need to provide us with details of your role and that of the children’s other parent.

Parents/carers meeting the keyworker criteria, with children of pre-school age, who also require childcare and where there is no one to provide care for them, should contact the Family Gateway on 0300133133.  The Family Gateway will look at collating the details of these needs and will work with parents to see where it might be possible to offer places.