Relevant international news
Next100, 23 July 2020
UNESCO webinar paints ECEC as ‘the forgotten child’ in society, calls for more attention
The Sector, 20 July 2020
Policy memo: Strengthening the quality of early childhood education and care through inclusion
European Commission, June 2020
Why recovery needs to have children at its centre
Social Europe, 16 June 2020
'I won't go': Cheers and tears as Europe's kids go back to school
CTV News, 11 May 2020
Schools reopening has not triggered rise in Covid-19 cases, EU ministers told
The Guardian, 18 May 2020
No coronavirus spike found after re-opening schools in 22 EU countries
The Telegraph, 18 May 2020
Lack of childcare ‘forcing key workers to stay home’
BBC, 30 March 2020
If coronavirus forces childcare services to close for good, parents will be left stranded
The Guardian, 30 March 2020
Coronavirus: Creches will not ask parents for fees after deal with State
The Irish Times, 24 March 2020
The coronavirus puts child care sector in need of a bailout
Boston Globe, 24 March 2020
Opinion: Child cares - and parents of young children - need a bailout
Romper, 20 March 2020
COVID-19 resources: State child care actions in response to COVID-19
The Hunt Institue, Ongoing updates
COVID-19: The U.S. Coronavirus response must meet health workers’ child care needs
Center for American Progress, 24 March 2020
COVID-19: Babies don’t do social distancing
The Hill, 20 March 2020
COVID-19: Australia: Medical certificate needed for childcare subsidy if children kept home
The Guardian, 19 March 2020
COVID-19: Scramble for childcare in Madrid as schools closed over coronoavirus
The Guardian, 11 March 2020
COVID-19: UK: Parents with these jobs can continue to send their children to school
SkyNews, 20 March 2020
COVID-19: UK: Nurseries will close without more support during coronavirus
The Guardian, 20 March 2020
COVID-19: UK: All schools to close from Friday; GCSE and A-level exams cancelled – UK Covid-19, as it happened
The Guardian, 18 March 2020
COVID-19: For parents, a battle to find day care while so much closes amid coronavirus fears
The Washington Post, 13 March 2020
‘What’s the right thing to do?’ Coronavirus forces families to make painful child care decisions
The Time, 17 March 2020
Coronavirus: How does it impact child care providers and CCR&R?
Child Care Aware of America, 28 February 2020
Being a childcare worker has always meant living on the frontlines
Jezebel, 17 March 2020
Denmark gives green light to children's pyjama parties
The Local, 14 May 2020
How reopened schools in Denmark keep children safely apart
BBC News, 12 May 2020
‘It’s like walking a tightrope’: Life after lockdown in Denmark
The Local, 18 April 2020
Three toys per child and a teddy bear ban: New rules for Denmark’s kindergartens
The Local, 16 April 2020
Denmark first in Europe to reopen schools after coronavirus lockdown
The Local, 15 April 2020
How schools and day care centres in Denmark are gearing up for reopening
The Local, 13 April 2020
Government recommendations for small kids returning to daycare, kindergarten and school
CPH Post, 9 April 2020
Country responses
Austria
Schools are closed but will continue to supervise children of parents who are working. Child care centres are closed in some locales such as Vienna.
Belgium
Child care centres are not required to close. Schools are closed but some schools will remain open to look after children of essential workers.
Denmark
Re-opened child care on April 15, 2020
Denmark gives green light to children's pyjama parties
The Local, 14 May 2020
How reopened schools in Denmark keep children safely apart
BBC News, 12 May 2020
‘It’s like walking a tightrope’: Life after lockdown in Denmark
The Local, 18 April 2020
Three toys per child and a teddy bear ban: New rules for Denmark’s kindergartens
The Local, 16 April 2020
Denmark first in Europe to reopen schools after coronavirus lockdown
The Local, 15 April 2020
How schools and day care centres in Denmark are gearing up for reopening
The Local, 13 April 2020
Government recommendations for small kids returning to daycare, kindergarten and school
CPH Post, 9 April 2020
Finland
Re-opening schools and daycares starting May 14, 2020
Finland to reopen schools and daycares gradually starting May 14
National Post, 29 April 2020
France
Will re-open child care on May 11, 2020
70 cases of COVID-19 at French schools days after re-opening
The Star, 18 May 2020
Viral photo shows preschoolers confined to chalk squares for social-distanced playtime
The Hill, 13 May 2020
France starts to reopen schools - but many kids remain at home
The Local, 12 May 2020
French PM reveals detailed plan to end lockdown in France
The Local, 28 April 2020
Updated: How France's plan to reopen schools has changed
The Local, 21 April 2020
Germany
All child care centres closed.
Ireland
All child care centres closed.
Creches will not ask parents for fees for three months, as government scheme will see childcare worker wages topped up beyond the 70 per cent level announced for others.
Department of Children and Youth Affairs will reimburse childcare providers a further 30 per cent on top of the scheme announced earlier, which will see the Government pay 70 per cent of a workers salary up to €410 per week.
Importance of childcare to the economy has been recognised at last [5:22]
Irish Times, 15 June 2020
What will reopened childcare centres look like to staff and to children?
The Irish Times, 2 June 2020
Coronavirus: HSE experts support the early reopening of schools
The Irish Times, 29 May 2020
Report warns over ‘financial sustainability’ of childcare sector
The Irish Times, 14 May 2020
Italy
All child care centres closed.
Social bubbles and no toys from home: How Italy will reopen kindergartens
The Local, 4 August 2020
Italians prepare to return to work, if they can find child-care
The Wall Street Journal, 2 May 2020
Lithuania
All child care centres are closed.
Netherlands
Will re-open child care centres on May 11, 2020
De rol van kinderen in de transmissie van SARS-CoV-2 / The role of children in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2
Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde, 6 June 2020
Initial results on how COVID-19 spreads within Dutch families
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, 3 June 2020
Children and COVID-19
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, 18 May 2020
Netherlands wants to fully open primary schools before the summer
The Brussels Times, 23 April 2020
Europe begins going back to school: France and Holland become latest countries to reopen classrooms, with young children to return in small groups from May 11
Daily Mail, 22 April 2020
Netherlands will open primary schools in May: Other lockdown measures continue
NL Times, 21 April 2020
Norway
Re-opened child care on April 20, 2020
0.6% of children in Norway test positive for the coronavirus
The Local, 21 May 2020
Opening schools has not rekindled epidemic in Norway, say authorities
The Local, 11 May 2020
‘I wasn’t sure of the kids’ safety’: How parents felt about Norway’s kindergarten opening
The Local, 24 April 2020
Nursery, but not as they knew it ... Norway adjusts to life after lockdown
The Guardian, 24 April 2020
Oslo kindergartens will open again
City of Oslo, 17 April 2020
Pack lunches and no toys from home: New rules for Norway’s kindergartens
The Local, 20 April 2020
Kindergarten reopening and COVID-19 [Video]
Bydel Bjerke, 20 April 2020
Updated: What you need to know about Norway’s kindergarten reopening
The Local, 15 April 2020
Portugal
All child care centres closed. Wage compensation for parents not at work.
Scotland
Schools and nurseries in Scotland and Wales will close as of March 20th, 2020
Reopening childcare safely
Scottish Government, 15 June 2020
Sweden
Neither schools nor child care are consistently closed.
UK
Schools and nurseries in Scotland and Wales will close as of March 20th, 2020
Schools and nurseries in the UK-England will be close das of March 20th, 2020
Schools in Northern Ireland are due to shut Monday, March 23rd, 2020.
Activism, autonomy and identities: Stories from early childhood educators
British Educational Research Associations
UK working mothers are 'sacrificial lambs' in coronavirus childcare crisis
The Guardian, 24 July 2020
Don’t build roads, open schools
The Atlantic, 30 June 2020
Early years and childcare sector at risk of collapse in England
The Guardian, 1 June 2020
Education secretary uses Danish schools example to fend off union criticism
Personnel Today, 14 May 2020
Coronavirus: Some childminders in England can reopen
BBC, 13 May 2020
United States
Child care closures/ re-openings are managed by state governments. There is no definitive answer on the status of child care in the US.
Coronavirus prompts child-care providers to call it quits
Los Angeles Times, 22 August 2020
Pandemic widened Boston’s child care gap
WGBH, 12 August 2020
Daycare workers worry they're being asked to do too much for kids with distance learning assignments
ABC 10, 12 August 2020
Joe Biden's plan for universal preschool forgets key to children's success: Parents.
USA Today, 3 August 2020
US: What are parents doing for child care? Here are 3 options (with trade-offs)
NPR, 31 July 2020
Child care is broken. Biden has a plan to fix it.
Vox, 24 July 2020
How the child care crisis will distort the economy for a generation
Politico, 23 July 2020
California allowing kids in classrooms - for day care
Times Herald, 22 July 2020
Opinion: Elizabeth Warren: To fight the pandemic, here’s my must-do list
The New York Times, 21 July 2020
Can essential child care during Covid-19 offer a model to schools this fall?
CNN, 20 July 2020
NYC plans child care for 100,000 kids when schools partially reopen
Politico, 16 July 2020
Advocating for child care during and after a pandemic
Child Care Exchange, July 2020
The coronavirus pandemic child care crisis, in 11 numbers
Vox, 16 July 2020
Why it took so long for politicians to treat the child care crisis as a crisis
FiveThirtyEight, 16 July 2020
LA and San Diego Schools to Go Online-Only in The Fall
The New York Times, 13 June 2020
There is no essential work without child care
Dissent, 8 July 2020
COVID-19 planning considerations: Guidance for school re-entry
American Pediatric Association, July 2020
University of Minnesota child care research finds urban-rural divide, including in Northland
Duluth News Tribune, 3 July 2020
Parents can’t wait around forever
The Atlantic, 2 July 2020
Opinion: Child care is essential to reopening the economy
CNN, 2 July 2020
Under the same roof, for better and for worse
Rapid Assessment of Pandemic Impact on Development Early Childhood Household Survey Project, 16 June 2020
Why kids rarely fall sick with COVID-19 revealed in new research
MSN lifestyle, 12 June 2020
Time’s up: Child care providers are not America’s mammy
The Grio, 12 June 2020
America’s child care system Is in crisis. Joe Biden will soon release a plan to fix it.
Mother Jones, 12 June 2020
COVID-19 pandemic adds further stress to an already overwhelmed local child care industry
Greeley Tribune, 7 June 2020
With caution and creativity, day cares prepare to reopen
The New York Times, 2 June 2020
Should the child care industry get a bail-out?
New York Times, 27 May 2020
Opinion: Without child care, there’s no recovery
New York Times - Opinion Today, 20 May 2020
Affordable child care is increasingly difficult to find in the U.S.—coronavirus could make it harder
CNBC, 15 May 2020
Is day care safe during the coronavirus pandemic? It depends. Here are some guidelines.
USA Today, 18 May 2020
Commentary: Universal child care was provided during World War II. We need it again during this pandemic — and beyond
Chicago Tribune, 30 April 2020
Australia and New Zealand
Quality child care can help rebuild our economy
The Australian, 13 August 2020
Cheaper childcare could boost economy by $11b a year: Grattan Institute
The Sydney Morning Herald, 9 August 2020
Childcare centre brace for cutbacks
The Australian, 5 August 2020
Now would be a good time to admit Australia’s childcare system is not fit for purpose
The Guardian, 4 August 2020
Melbourne childcare providers say they need urgent clarity and support from government Australia news
The Guardian, 4 August 2020
Why there should be no place for profit in early childhood education
Stuff, 31 July 2020
Australia’s childcare centres struggle to pay up to $9,000 for Covid-19 cleaning
The Guardian, 26 July 2020
Australian business groups warn of coming cliff when free childcare and jobkeeper end
The Guardian, 24 June 2020
Extending free childcare could fuel huge boost to economy, report says
The Guardian, 24 June 2020
Free childcare ends as tax refunds start rolling out to millions of Australians
The Guardian, 12 June 2020
Snapping back to the childcare subsidy method is nuts. It should not be a system that profits
The Guardian, 20 May 2020
Large pay bump for early childhood teachers in pre-budget announcement
Stuff.co.nz, 11 May 2020
‘Free childcare has been amazing’: Australian parents hope pandemic may pave way for reform
The Guardian, 10 May 2020
Forget flowers and chocolates for Mother’s Day: Keep free childcare going instead
The Conversation, 7 May 2020
COVID-19: ECEC needs urgent and tough COVID-19 rules, Union says, releasing plan
The Sector, 26 March 2020
COVID-19: United Workers Union ECEC rules to stop spread of COVID-19
United Workers Union & Big Steps Campaign, 25 March 2020