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News24 Wire reports that a court application by trade union Solidarity against the Department of Social Development regarding the reopening of private nursery schools has been postponed until next Tuesday.
The trade union’s Occupational Guild for Social Workers and its School Support Centre (SCC) lodged the case. The judge in the matter apparently ordered the case to be postponed to consider previous rulings on the reopening of schools during Covid-19. While dates for the reopening of public nursery schools have been announced by the education department, private nursery schools and day-cares were not included. According to the Guild’s Marisa Engelbrecht, delays in reopening nursery schools could negatively impact children. She said: “Many children in departmental nursery schools will, one of these days, return to school while thousands of other children in private nursery schools are deprived of this basic human right by government. Furthermore, parents are concerned for they have no place to leave their children while they themselves must return to work. There are also many children exposed to domestic violence at home and for many children the meal they received at school was their only meal of the day.”
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard at The Citizen
- Read too, Nursery schools allowed to reopen, but just for staff, on page 7 of Sowetan of 23 June 2020
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