The government is rolling out the home testing kits to the families and childcare bubbles of school age children.
From this week any member of a household, childcare or support bubble of primary and secondary school staff and pupils can get a twice weekly home testing kit, known as rapid lateral flow testing.
But families of younger children supported by England’s 34,000 childminders are not included, in a move that has been criticised by the Early Years Alliance.
EYA chief executive Neil Leitch says the exclusion of childminders from the mass home testing roll out “is completely absurd”.
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