Reports suggest that workers from 16 sectors including emergency services, food production, health, transport and energy, who have received both Covid vaccinations, will no longer have to quarantine after being ‘pinged’ by the app.
Early years and childcare are not expected to be included within the 16 sectors exempt from self-isolation.
Nursery World contacted the Department for Health and Social Care for confirmation, however it has yet to respond.
The Early Years Alliance called the move ‘absurd’, and said it is in ‘conversation with the Government to understand why the early years has not been included in the exemptions, and how settings can be supported.’
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