Childminding: Coronavirus

(asked on 8th March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Government’s offer of covid-19 home test kits to be posted to families with children attending school, for what reason childminders have been excluded from the recent extension of the rollout of home testing kits to staff in PVI early years settings.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 15th March 2021

Childminders currently have access to community testing and should continue to use local community testing programmes for regular asymptomatic testing until further notice. More information on where and how these can be accessed is found here: https://www.gov.uk/find-covid-19-lateral-flow-test-site.

The Department is also continuing to work closely with colleagues across Government and local authorities to explore the most effective approach for testing childminders. We will update the sector on these developments as soon as we are able.

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