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Early childhood sector - viability concerns
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English - May 10, 2020 21:32 - 8 minutes - 7.49 MBNews Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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As schools, universites and early childhood centres wait to find out when they can be fully operational again, the level 3 and 4 lockdown has claimed casualties in the education sector. The Early Childhood Council Chief Exective Peter Reynolds says seven weeks of closure has taken a huge emotional and financial toll on some early learning centres, with one operator phoning him in tears saying they won't be reopening. He says even when centres can reopen under level 2, attendance numbers will be slow to build up and he predicts more centres will cease operating.