Covid-19: Childcare workers’ pay in doubt

A group representing childcare providers has criticised the Department of Children and Youth Affairs for what it calls its “utterly entrenched and uncommunicative” response to the Covid-19 crisis.

The Federation of Childhood Providers wrote to its members in recent days, saying it still has no clarity on any emergency funding from the Government — a “heavy and cruel body blow” to a “sector on its knees”.