Nursery staff have feared for their physical and mental health while working through successive lockdowns – many of them without access to full sick pay, a study led by the…
Dr Nathan Archer, who is a researcher on the Childcare during Covid team considers what activism in the early years sector means and what it can achieve in this piece…
Our research lead, Professor Jennifer Tomlinson, is quoted in a Guardian comment piece looking at the risk early years workers have faced working through the national lockdown. Read the full…
Why responding to the crisis in early years education and care during the pandemic must address working conditions for early years workers by Xanthe Whittaker, Kate Hardy, and Jennifer Tomlinson…
We are surveying nannies to find out how Covid19 has affected you and your work since March 2020. The survey is now live and the link is here: https://leeds.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/childcare-during-covid-19-nanny-survey-w1 We are…
Research project PI, Kate Hardy, spoke to the Guardian this week about nurseries remaining open during this third national lockdown, arguing that, if nurseries and early years stay open, the…
In this short podcast, Drs Kate Hardy and Xanthe Whittaker discuss how COVID-19 has caused disruption to early years education and childcare, and the impact that has had on workers…
We would like to speak to childcare practitioners, managers, nannies, childminders, parents and grandparents about their experiences of childcare during the Covid-19 pandemic. If you would like to take part…
Dr Kate Hardy (PI) is featured in this article in the Financial Times on the impact of UK childcare during Covid. Read the full article here.