Parents are divided over school key worker places

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Lucy Dixon Social media editor With schools closed to most children for the latest national lockdown, parents are debating who should be eligible for a key worker place. And it seems they're VERY conflicted.

Schools are not completely closed, of course, as they remain open for vulnerable children and the kids of key workers and – as we reported earlier this month – demand for key worker spaces is at an all-time high. These are the questions being hotly debated right now across social media and on the Netmums forum. Here's what you're saying:Many parents on this chat thread think that the definition of key worker needs looking at again, to reduce the amount of children eligible to attend face-to-face lessons.

'The whole point of shutting schools is to stop the virus spreading and to save the NHS. If all the parents work full-time as key workers, then fine. But in many cases, the child has at least one parent who doesn't work FT as a key worker outside the home, so they don't need to send their child in FT.

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