Governor Murphy announced that childcare services can resume June 15th.
Day camps can open beginning on July 6th
The governor says he expects to ease restrictions on indoor gatherings for the weekend of June 12th.
Following Governor Murphy’s signing of Executive Order No. 149, which will reopen childcare centers in the State of New Jersey beginning June 15, the New Jersey Department of Children and Families today released specific operating guidance for centers in order to preserve the health and safety of children, staff and the families being served.
“This is an important step forward in New Jersey’s reopening strategy, ensuring a safe, stable and seamless childcare infrastructure for New Jersey’s returning workforce, not just those designated as essential,” said NJ DCF Commissioner Christine Norbut Beyer, MSW. “And it probably comes as welcome relief for parents who did not know how they were going to juggle summer care or childcare needs with their job responsibilities. But in order to be able to take this step safely, we have to move forward in a planful and methodical way to support centers and camps in reducing the likelihood of spreading the virus.”
The childcare safety guidelines, which were posted on the NJ DCF website and will be communicated to all licensed childcare centers in the State of New Jersey, would require centers to abide by certain safety guidelines as a condition of reopening. Among the safe guidelines for childcare centers:
– Centers will be required to screen children and staff each day, prior to entry into the center. Anyone exhibiting symptoms or with a fever over 100.4 will be prohibited from entering the center.
– Class and group sizes will be limited, and groups must be spaced out throughout the center. Staff members will not be able to move between groups.
– Staff will be required to wear cloth masks, and children over the age of 2 will be encouraged, whenever feasible, to wear masks. Masks will not be required when they would inhibit an individual’s health. Masks for children under the age of 2 or during nap-time will be prohibited as they may pose a suffocation hazard for young children.
– Childcare centers will be required to engage in enhanced cleaning and sanitation practices.
Licensed childcare centers will be required to file an attestation form with the Department of Children and Families, Office of Licensing, indicating that they plan to reopen and will follow the prescribed safety guidelines, modeled after best practices and standards released by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other health organizations. Office of Licensing inspectors will begin to visit licensed childcare centers beginning June 15 in order to support centers in implementing safety guidance.
“New Jersey’s childcare centers are among the best in the nation, held to some of the most stringent standards of care,” said Commissioner Beyer. “We know that this has been a hardship on many of them, as they have had to curtail business operations unless certified as an emergency childcare center. We also recognize that these necessary closures were hard on our working families and their children. Childcare centers aren’t just a critical part of our state’s economy, but they also provide critical social and emotional supports to so many young families.
“A lot is being asked of them now, but we really couldn’t ask for a community of providers better suited to rise up and meet these challenges head on,” added Commissioner Beyer.
Thank you, governer Murphy!!
Hopefully, my family’s sanity can make a comeback!
Wow, finally.
Even though he was a little slow on the pick up, I’m glad the gover5has finally established some set dates when we can return to quasi normalcy.
are there any restrictions with opening daycares or daycamps?
Is there a reason that he refuses SCHOOLS to open
Very conveniently making the date too late for schools to open
Something to do with those teachers unions in the public schools or what
Does this include private playgroups in morahs houses
He has not yet posted the regulations about day camps. He might make bunk sizes so small that it wont be financially feasible ,unless every parent wants to pay 3 times what they paid last year.
Are daycares going to open under these guidelines? limited grps? Does that mean only some can join? Assuming this is not talking about playgrps?
Assuming this is not talking about playgroups?
Why are daycares more important than school? What good does it do me if my three year old is in daycare but my five and seven year old are home because their school is closed?
Morahs claimed I need to pay in full as per our local rov which I did. Worked from home while juggled childcare. I hope these same Morahs reciprocate the responsibility and reopen even if this causes them to forfeit unemployment.
How about the employees of the daycare – who is watching their school aged children? As an employee it makes sense to just stay home and collect unemployment….
Why wouldn’t this pertain to playgroups??..what is it referring to than
Why wouldn’t this pertain to playgroups??.
It’s about time
Daycares include all groups that include children through kindergarten age (5 year olds). Morahs who do their own groups and go according to a “school calendar” are still considered daycares and are required to follow the guidelines of daycares.
if the unrest over the unfortunate death of george floyd spreads to new jersey by then the governor will be wishing he had opened the state up in may. but by the time he realizes it may already be too late to contain the spread of the riots. a stitch in time saves nine.
More nonsensical info from Governor Nonsense.
High School sports can resume on June 29, but camps for children are only allowed “non-contact sports where children maintain 6 feet distance from each other” huh?
As a morah I would love to open up to give closure to the year. I looked into it and it’s not that simple. You have to applyfor permission and follow many rules. I’m waiting for the doctors and Rabbi’nin to speak up as well so I won’t be accusing of being a “Rotzaach”. On a side note we follow the elementry school schedule not the daycare schedule and I understand gor many Morahs it will be veey difficult to run their group with all their children underfoot.
Understandably it will be difficult buts its also been extremely difficult for all the parents who worked from home with their kids for the past 2.5 months and still paid their morahs.
Playgroups follow SCHOOL SCHEDULE. There is no way playgroups can open with their children home. If schools and babysitters open playgroups can open.
Most playgroups go according to school schedule. I’m not sure where you get the info that all playgroups were paid. I only received from half the parents something for April. And for May only 2 parents gave something. Out of 17. The parents that didnt even pay me anything gladly took home all the projects and things that I sent out. I didnt do anything for may. Why should I work so hard for no money? I dont feel an obligation to go the extra mile to open up for the parents. Mind you they are all balbateshe parents that bh have plenty.
Well I paid and the people I know paid. Morahs also got half of March off as well. I’m working full time with all my kids home. At this point, I think Morahs can make some arrangements for a few weeks. I dont have the luxury of sitting with my lower elementary kids and helping them with their calls. They are basically on their own.
Murphy’s Law: Any pronouncement by Gov. Murphy will have the worst possible effect at the worst possible time.
“All balabateshe parents and have plenty” lol- you have no idea what they have, if they lost their jobs, etc. “balebateshe” people don’t qualify for anything in terms of a break- they pay full taxes, full tuition, need to work during the summer, get very little vacation the list goes on and on. Most of them are the epitome of the squeezed middle class. If you’ve never been in those shoes, You have no idea what you are talking about
Morahs are normaly who bring the parnassa to their families, we don’t most of the morahs didn’t get pay full tuition or any . Yet they have to pay full tuition for their kids schools. Rent, Morgage, bills, food, etc. Morahs preparation takes time and effort, I do it regardless of getting paid in full or not, I still prepare and do hotlines and projects for my little talmidim and I do it L’sheim Shamoyim, who gives me my parnassa is Hashem and not the parents. If parents get paid or if they are baalabatish or not , is their chesbon with Hashem. I do my job as a Morah with all my heart and whoever wants to pay or not is their cheshbon . I wish that this will pass soon and that everything will be normal agan.
A Morah that misses her kinderlach