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How do we obtain any policy up-dates from Early Years Alliance ?

Anybody know how we re-order more rapid lateral flow tests ? I put an order through and they said it was invalid as we do not have an outbreak situation. We are still testing each week and asking parents not to send in their child if they have covid until they have two clear tests.

So we have just set up a Facebook page for our parents to use, its set up as a closed group. But we do not have a separate policy for this, does anyone have a policy for FB Nursery Pages? Also have you done a separate risk assessment for this ? Great to see a copy of these if there are any....

Has anyone had any training on the how to use the WellComm toolkit, if so where do we find this training? We were told training would be available but I've yet to see any ?

How do we get the policy up-dates from EYA now? since moving over to the new members portal, I am unable to to do this. I e-mailed the EY in December and they sent me all the policies and their up-dates, so I was able to up-date all our policies. But surely we should be able to access up-dates on the new systems, like we used to on the old one.

We have received our Rapid Lateral Flow Tests, is everyone doing the tests twice a week? We are such a small pre-school, with only three staff, we were thinking that one test per week would be sufficient, plus two of us have had the vaccine!

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We have just been told by our committee that they would like us to wear masks at drop off and pick up. I wasn't sure to begin with as like you, couldn't see the point as almost all our children walk by themselves into pre-school. BUT as you pointed out it does show the parents this is a serious situation,! we have visors and masks. I have decided to wear a visor so at least the children can still see my welcoming smiley face!!!! LOL We have also told all our parents to wear masks at pick up and drop off.

Yes we are staying shut until next week and doing exactly the same, it's looking like we will only have two members of staff most days, so we will be opening for a small number on reduced hours to.

HAVE I GOT THIS RIGHT ALL PRE-SCHOOLS ARE REQUIRED TO STAY OPEN FOR ALL CHILDREN ??

I can no longer check the policy up-dates on the EYA web-site. I signed up to the members portal and the message says they are experiencing technical difficulties with digital downloads. How are we supposed to check up-dates on policies ?

WHAT IS EVERYONE DOING ABOUT 'SAND' ? WE DIDN'T OPEN OUR SANDPIT IN JUNE, BUT WITH MORE CHILDREN COMING BACK IN SEPTEMBER I'M WONDERING IF THERE IS A WAY WE COULD USE IT AGAIN?

How is everyone managing not mixing groups of children? The guidelines say not to mix groups of children, how do we manage that when we have different children in each day ? we are very small and only have a maximum of 12 children in at the moment, we only have one room so very difficult to split them, but we do have a large outside space which we will be using. We can't avoid mixing them though ?

No not a terrible idea at all, think we will be doing the same !!

Yep I'm 50++ and half my staff to !! we only have four staff...