We are a family-run setting in the heart of Huntingdon, and we're really proud to have stayed open for key worker children, but having between nine and 15 children in per day now as opposed to our usual 75 or so, has definitely been an adjustment.
As soon as the partial closure measures were enforced, we saw our role instantly diverge into two distinct paths: one, supporting those families who have continued to come in to us, and the other, reaching out to the families we were no longer physically seeing each day.
#keepintouch campaign
This led to us creating and launching our #keepintouch campaign, which offers not only online posts focused on providing actual activities parents at home can enjoy with their children, but also support for parents which recognises that for many of them, stay-at-home parenting is a totally new learning curve to go through.
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