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Around a thousand creches will be back open later this morning as the reopening of the childcare sector begins. The 100,000 children enrolled in the free preschool scheme are eligible to go back under the first phase of the plan. But it's not clear whether all will, with only around a quarter of early years businesses expected to reopen. Teresa Heeney, Chief Executive of Early Childhood Ireland, says parents must keep moving after dropping children off this morning: [audio mp3="https://media.radiocms.net/uploads/2021/03/08071552/teresa-heeney.mp3"][/audio]