{"id":232722,"date":"2026-01-14T12:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T12:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/232722\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T12:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T12:50:07","slug":"south-east-water-woe-continues-in-kent-and-sussex-as-small-firms-fear-going-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/232722\/","title":{"rendered":"South East Water woe continues in Kent and Sussex as small firms fear going bust"},"content":{"rendered":"

What do you do if your child’s school is closed?published at 08:53 GMT<\/p>\n

08:53 GMT<\/p>\n

\"AImage source, Eddie Mitchell<\/p>\n

Some schools in Kent and Sussex remain closed today because of a lack of water. <\/p>\n

How do I know if my child’s school is closed on Wednesday?<\/p>\n

Most councils list school closures in their area on their websites – you can see schools in Kent, external<\/a>, East Sussex,, external<\/a> and West Sussex, external<\/a> here.<\/p>\n

Local media and radio stations also often share lists of school closures throughout the morning.<\/p>\n

What will my child’s school do when it is closed?<\/p>\n

Schools will try to give parents as much notice as possible about a potential closure.<\/p>\n

If it does close, then the Department for Education requires that a school should consider moving to remote learning until it is able to reopen.<\/p>\n

Can I get time off work to look after my children?<\/p>\n

The Employment Rights Act allows parents to take time off work “because of the unexpected disruption or termination of arrangements for the care of a dependent”.<\/p>\n

But, this does not mean that the parent will definitely be paid for the time off work – whether this is the case will depend on the employers’ policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What do you do if your child’s school is closed?published at 08:53 GMT 08:53 GMT Image source, Eddie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-232722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}