The Prime Minister was asked by a member of the public ‘how early years provision could be safe, when primary schools were deemed a vector for the virus’, and whether keeping settings open 'did not defeat the purpose of this lockdown'.
Mr Johnson responded to the question, from Judith in Leeds, by referring only to the need for early years provision to be kept open for key workers during the pandemic.
That led to the Early Years Alliance to question, ‘Does Mr Johnson really not know his own Government's policy?’
Early years settings have been asked to stay open as normal to all children, with funding being withdrawn if parents choose not to take up their Government-funded place this term.
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