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Emergency Childcare during school closure

19 March 2020

Dear Parents & Carers

Well, what interesting times!

As instructed by the government, William Lilley Infant & Nursery School will close at the end of tomorrow until further notice. The latest information is that schools could be shut ‘…for some time’. So who knows when everyone will be back together.

Schools have also been instructed to provide emergency childcare for the ‘most vulnerable’ and for children of ‘front line workers’. We are now working out how to make this happen.

Like all schools, we’re waiting for further guidance from the DFE. However, at this moment in time we know that:

Vulnerable pupils are those who:

  • Have an education, health care plan
  • Is a ‘looked after child’ (eg in foster care or similar)
  • Has a social worker

Front Line workers include:

  • NHS staff
  • Police
  • delivery drivers

We expect the list of front line workers to be expanded and clarified over the next 24 hours.

PLEASE HELP US NOW

If your child is ‘vulnerable’ as described above

 and/or you believe that you are a front line worker

and you want to take up the emergency child care provision

at William Lilley

PLEASE GET IN TOUCH TO TELL US NOW

…no later than 10.00am on Friday 20 March

As soon as we have an idea of how many children we are expecting, we can plan to make it happen

Please let us know if you want to take up this offer by:

Calling the school office on 0115 917 9277

Emailing school at office18@williamlilley.notts.sch.uk

or

By popping into the school office to tell us

We will send you updates as soon as we have them

 

Sally Beardsley – Headteacher

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