Childcare: coronavirus

Guidance and services

• COVID-19 workforce risk assessment tool: guidance
  COVID-19 workforce risk assessment tool guidance for managers and staff.
• Children’s soft play and indoor play areas: coronavirus
  Guidance for indoor play and soft play centres to help keep children, their parents or carers and employees safe during the coronavirus pandemic.
• Childcare Provider Grant: privacy notice
  How we will use your personal information that you provide when applying for the Childcare Provider Grant.
• Childcare and play: frequently asked questions
  Guidance for parents and childcare providers.
• Protective measures in childcare settings: keep childcare safe
  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.
• Reopening children's playgrounds and outdoor play areas: coronavirus
  Guidance for those in charge of playgrounds or outdoor play areas to keep children safe during the coronavirus pandemic.

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

• 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.
• 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.