Mr. Toby Wolfe:

The public health advice allows, in most cases, providers to operate at something really rather close to the adult-child ratios and capacity which they were working with before. While there will have to be some adjustments at drop off, arrival, entries, exits, use of relief staff and so on, it will not be such a big change from the way their practices worked previously.

We cannot make any promises at this stage as to whether the public health advice will change in September. Clearly much of that depends on the course and control of the virus over the coming weeks. The Health Protection Surveillance Centre, HPSC, has made clear the public health advice is a living document. It is what we have at the moment. It is intended to last until there is a change in circumstances.

Some services will find it more challenging than others, just depending on the layout of the rooms, for example. That is where our reopening grant is intended to provide some supports for services which have to make bigger changes.