Local daycare facility shares safety measures in place to protect kids

Local daycare facility shares safety measures in place to protect kids

As businesses reopen, parents are heading back to work.

But schools remain closed.

This makes child care services even more important.

A local daycare shares more about the measures they have in place to keep kids safe.

News 10's tilly marlatt brings us more.

Pk} small world learning center in terre haute has been open throughout the covid-19 pandemic.

Currently, the center is only providing care for children of essential workers.

"that's just to help kind of limit the exposure.

Make sure the kiddos who absolutely need to be here are here, but the ones that don't need to be here aren't here."

(kristina nichols, assistant director, small world learning center) as businesses reopen, the center says they are allowing more kids in the building.

"so the families that go back to work this week, they absolutely can bring the kiddos back."

Hand washing, providing masks for staff members, and deep cleaning each evening are a few of the safety measures in place.

"so we started implementing a new drop-off policy where, we check the kiddos temperatures, make they haven't been exposed to anyone, make sure they haven't been sick in the last 24 hours.

Any child with a temperature over 99.6 is sent home."

Nichols says the center has received a few calls about new applicants.

Kids ages 2 through 12 can enroll.

The majority of kids who have needed care throughout the pandemic are preschool age.

But, nichols says e-learning help is available.

"if we have a family in need, we have wi-fi set up, they can bring a device.

I'm a teacher myself, so i'm able to work with those kids and get through the e-learning process."

Next week, the center will begin serving children of parents who don't have to return to work immediately.

Reporting in terre haute, tilly marlatt, news 10.