So, for what it's worth, this is my solution to the "when can kids go back to school" issues that are emerging (becoming an issue with attempts at timetabling at the uni): governments can borrow at effectively negative interest rates at the moment, as central banks...

...are just buying the bonds they produce to fund the expenditure. Governments are now beginning the bollocks macho talk about funding "shovel ready" projects, which always means willy-waving bridges that take years to build...

...So, use that money to fund putting as many temporary classrooms into school playgrounds as possible; fund thousands of new criminal record checks for childminders; fund the development of online childcare training courses through existing providers...

...and provide households with a voucher for a year's free childcare. In a year, you've transformed your economy to one with care as it's focus and solved an economic and social dilemma for everyone else. FIN.

(and, yes, I know temporary classrooms are shit, I was a kid in the 1980s. We had a tree growing through one of mine at one of my schools)