The latest Impact Brief from social mobility charity The Sutton Trust warns of huge financial uncertainty, redundancies and likely closures.
The analysis includes a poll of 6,300 early years providers showing that at the height of the pandemic in April, two-thirds were closed to all children, including 79 per cent of pre-schools, 59 per cent of nurseries and 41 per cent of child-minders.
The widespread closures have meant that many providers – particularly those in disadvantaged areas – have relied on government support to stay afloat, including through the furlough scheme and business rates holidays.
For example, nurseries and pre-schools in the most deprived areas are more than twice as likely to have needed a business rates holiday compared to those in the least deprived (35 per cent versus 16 per cent).
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