Waterford, Ireland / WLR
Jan 20, 2021 10:36 AM
With Ireland’s lockdown restrictions up for review on January 31st, the representative body for independent early years’ service providers, Seas Suas, has called on the Government to provide clarity and take an immediate decision on the reopening of childcare.
It labelled Government’s current approach as ‘short termism’.
Seas Suas suggest that decision makers should utilise data and predictive modelling to establish the likely scenario with regard Covid-19 on January 31st.
This would help to ‘inform decision making now’ and a’void waiting for the last minute to take decisions’.
Seaus Suas said providers require time to plan and parents need time to make alternative childcare arrangements, if necessary.
The Minister for Education has said it is "incredibly disingenuous" of the INTO General Secretary to suggest that his union did not instruct teachers not to go to work tomorrow.
Anne Horan is the Kerry and Limerick representative of the INTO, the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation. The union and Fórsa, which represents special needs assistant, rejected plans to reopen schools next week for students with additional needs, because of public health and safety fears.
The education minister has accused a teachers’ union of being “incredibly disingenuous” over claims that it did not instruct its members not to return to schools.