Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what support and guidance is available for childcare providers that use multi-purpose community spaces to help them safely re-open from September 2020 as covid-19 lockdown restrictions are eased.

The Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government published the Covid-19: Guidance for the safe use of multi-purpose community facilities with the purpose of helping managers and users of community centres and village halls navigate and find government produced advice that maybe relevant to their individual circumstances.

As signposted to within the Covid-19: Guidance for the safe use of multi-purpose community facilities, when state schools in local areas reopen for all pupils in the autumn term 2020, wraparound providers, to include those based in a multi-purpose setting, should implement the Department for Education’s ‘protective measures guidance’ for providers of before or after school clubs, and other out-of-school settings during the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak. The guidance has been updated to include specific content on what measures providers should put in place to reduce the risk of infection and transmission of the coronavirus virus between children, staff and parents who attend their settings.