Earlier this week Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the closure of schools and colleges for most pupils as part of a the new lockdown to curb the spread of a new variant of Covid-19.
However, early years settings are expected to remain open.
Children's minister Vicky Ford said that pre-school-aged children “continue to have the lowest confirmed rates of coronavirus of all age groups and there is no evidence that the new variant of coronavirus disproportionately affects young children”.
She added that “there continues to be strong evidence that children are much less susceptible to severe clinical disease than older people”
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