Uncertainty over private nursery schools
The government announced earlier that nursery schools affiliated with schools are due to resume on July 6. However, uncertainty prevails regarding the reopening of private nursery schools and early childhood development centres.
Labour union Solidarity’s Occupational Guild for Social Workers and its School Support Centre hoped to receive some answers yesterday regarding the reopening of these schools, after it turned to the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria.
The court, however, postponed the urgent application to Tuesday.
This is so that other relevant rulings regarding the opening of schools during the Covid-19 pandemic can be considered.
One of these cases is last week’s full Bench hearing of an application by former DA leader Mmusi Maimane and his One SA Movement that schools should remain closed until the government can provide a comprehensive plan on how it was ready to safeguard them against this virus.
Judgment was reserved in that case. The judgment is expected to be delivered soon.
Solidarity, meanwhile, resorted to the urgent court regarding the re- opening of private nursery schools and early learning centres, as it said there was a lot of uncertainty around this issue.
While the Department of Education has announced the date when it planned to open school-affiliated preschools, it remained mum on the issue of the private institutions, which include day-care facilities.
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