The social enterprise is running holiday clubs from two of its nurseries. The club at one setting, Angel Pre-school in Westminster, ends today (7 August), however its club at Eastbury Nursery & Pre-school in Dagenham will run until 28 August.
The aim of the free clubs is to help young children who missed out on nursery education during lockdown and beyond. It is also hoped that the provision will help reassure children who are displaying high levels of anxiety and finding it difficult to separate from their parents.
According to LEYF, many children in London were isolating in high rise flats with no access to outside safe spaces to play and meet other children and families during lockdown. The social enterprise says there is growing concern that this can have a fundamental effect on their social and emotional development as well as their metabolic health.
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