The updated advice from the UK Health Security Agency comes after the Government announced new rules on Tuesday that children under the age of five who are close contacts of a positive case no longer need to take ‘a test’ or self-isolate. The rules were put into question by the Early Years Alliance, which said it hoped it was a ‘case of poorly written guidance’,and urged the Government to provide clarity as a matter of urgency.
The Department for Education has now confirmed to Nursery World that the PCR test advice has been reinstated and that it was an 'inadvertent omission' when the guidance was first published and it has now been updated.
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