Health fears and lack of demand are likely to keep many early childhood centres shut when schools partially reopen next week.
Sector leaders say many centre owners and teachers are still not convinced it is safe to reopen, despite Government assurances the chance of a Covid-19 outbreak in an early learning service is extremely low.
Most kindergartens and schools, however, look set to partially reopen on 29 April.
Here's RNZ education correspondent, John Gerritsen.
