For every week in January - when the Omicron wave was at its peak throughout the country - notifications to Ofsted of outbreaks of Covid among nurseries, pre-schools and childminders are now revealed to have been several thousand a week higher than initially stated by Ofsted.
This has come to light after Ofsted recently updated figures on the number of reported Covid-19 notifications in early years and childcare settings during the period that early years settings were required to report outbreaks.
Data was published fortnightly between June 2020 and February 2022 on the number of notifications from registered early years and childcare providers reporting one or more confirmed cases of Covid-19 by week.
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