Childcare: coronavirus

Guidance and services

• Childcare and play: frequently asked questions
  Guidance for parents and childcare providers.
• Guidance for childcare and playwork: coronavirus
  How to get your childcare service ready to allow more children to attend and protect them and your staff from coronavirus.
• National Minimum Standards (NMS) and guidance: regulated childcare
  Guidance on the standards childcare providers must meet to look after children.
• COVID-19 workforce risk assessment tool: guidance
  COVID-19 workforce risk assessment tool guidance for managers and staff.
• Childcare Provider Grant: privacy notice
  How we will use your personal information that you provide when applying for the Childcare Provider Grant.
• Childcare, playwork and organised activities action cards: coronavirus
  Guidance to help childcare providers protect children, staff and visitors.

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• Identifying children of critical workers: guidance
  Policy and strategy
  Guidance published by Welsh Ministers on identifying children of critical workers.
• The decision framework for the next phase of education and childcare
  Policy and strategy
  How we are changing the way that schools, further education and childcare providers work during the coronavirus pandemic.
• Childcare, Play and Early Years Division: response to COVID-19: integrated impact assessment
  Impact assessment
  Assessment of decisions around COVID-19 during March 2020 and April 2020.