Nurseries have been reassuring parents about the safety measures in place as they return to childcare settings today. The early years sector is among the first to reopen to children, along with specific primary school year groups.
Among them are the Kids Planet and Kids Allowed nurseries - which make up the UK's third largest nursery chain - and Salford nursery chain Kidzrus, which has five sites across the city.
While the former kept 25 out of its 52 sites open across the region to care for nearly 1,000 key worker children during lockdown, Kidzrus had to close altogether.
Now both are back up and running and while they don't yet have the numbers they had pre-coronavirus, they are hoping more will return over the coming weeks.