Month: March 2021

Following the the announcement on 22 February, nurseries in the private, voluntary and independent (PVI) sector will soon have access to home testing kits through the COVID-19 education testing programme.

The asymptomatic testing programme in education currently covers all staff at school-based nurseries and maintained nursery schools. We are now expanding home testing kits to staff in all private, voluntary and independent nurseries. These settings will start to receive deliveries of lateral flow device (LFD) home testing kits to offer to all of their staff for twice weekly testing from next month.

Guidance for childcare and educational settings in the management of COVID-19 – flowchart.

Children’s social care are asking that whenever an early years and childcare provider has regular contact with a child who is known to have an allocated social worker that professionals share the information with children’s social care team using the ‘making every contact count’ form.

The deadline for submitting the Termly Provider Survey Spring 2021 is 5 March. Please complete the survey.

Health Education England (HEE) are trying to reach as many practitioners as possible who work with families during pregnancy and the first 2 years of life to ask them about their future training needs in perinatal and parent-infant mental health.

The Bookstart treasure pack order form has been sent to providers in Teignbridge this week. Please look out for this email in your inbox and follow the link to order packs for all three-year-olds.