Covid-19 recovery plan: What does it mean for schools and childcare settings?

12 May 2020 5 mins read Fiona Simpson Early Years Education Coronavirus

Early years settings, schools, including special schools, and alternative education provisions in England will be able to open to more children from 1 June, new government guidelines state.

Some children will return to school on 1 June. Picture: Adobe Stock

Three- and four-year-olds and children in Year 1 and Year 6 will be the first to take up childcare and school places as part of a phased return, according to the Prime Minister’s plan for easing lockdown.

The 50-page document lays out three phases in which Boris Johnson wants to ease restrictions.

Vulnerable children and those of key workers have been asked to return to school straight away while nannies are able to begin working from Wednesday.

Phase two of the plan, which is due to begin on 1 June, will see children in nursery, Year 1 and Year 6 return.

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