Family support moved up a week

&amp;NewLine;<p>The anticipation of the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;vivreauportugalconsulting&period;com&sol;portugal-mesures-avant-noel-covid-19&sol;" data-type&equals;"url" data-id&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;vivreauportugalconsulting&period;com&sol;portugal-mesures-avant-noel-covid-19&sol;">closure<&sol;a> school activities&amp;comma; in addition to other measures planned for the first week of January&amp;comma; was decreed due to the worsening epidemiological situation in Portugal&amp;period;<&sol;p>&amp;NewLine;&amp;NewLine;&amp;NewLine;&amp;NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading">Family support brought forward by a week&amp;nbsp&amp;semi;<&sol;h2>&amp;NewLine;&amp;NewLine;&amp;NewLine;&amp;NewLine;<p>The government has decided to bring forward support for families to next week&amp;comma; as the closure of crèches and leisure workshops &amp;lpar;ATL&amp;rpar;&amp;comma; which was scheduled for the week of confinement between January 3 and 9&amp;comma; will take place on December 25&amp;period;<&sol;p>&amp;NewLine;&amp;NewLine;&amp;NewLine;&amp;NewLine;<p>"We will have family support&amp;period; During the first week of confinement&amp;comma; schools will not operate&amp;comma; because it&amp;rsquo&amp;semi;is the week between Christmas and New Year&amp;comma; so the&amp;rsquo&amp;semi;help only&amp;rsquo&amp;semi;applies to parents of&amp;rsquo&amp;semi;children in nurseries or ATLs&amp;comma; which will close&amp;period;&amp;nbsp&amp;semi;<&sol;p>&amp;NewLine;&amp;NewLine;&amp;NewLine;&amp;NewLine;<p>In the second week&amp;comma; that which was already planned and which is the first of January&amp;comma; the schools would already be open and consequently&amp;comma; we will grant this family support also to the parents who have children in the schools"&amp;comma; declared the Prime Minister&amp;comma; s undersecretary of state Tiago Antunes&amp;comma; speaking to RTP3&amp;period;<&sol;p>&amp;NewLine;&amp;NewLine;&amp;NewLine;&amp;NewLine;<p>In practice&amp;comma; explains Tiago Antunes&amp;comma; "the support is the same&amp;comma; it simply aims to support what was supposed to be open and is ultimately closed &amp;colon; the first week&amp;comma; these are the crèches and the&amp;rsquo&amp;semi;ATL&amp;comma; the second week&amp;comma; these are also the schools"&amp;period;<&sol;p>&amp;NewLine;&amp;NewLine;&amp;NewLine;&amp;NewLine;<p>The early closure of these school activities&amp;comma; in addition to&amp;rsquo&amp;semi;other measures planned for the first week of January&amp;comma; was decreed due to the&amp;rsquo&amp;semi;worsening epidemiological situation in Portugal&amp;period;<&sol;p>&amp;NewLine;&amp;NewLine;&amp;NewLine;&amp;NewLine;<p>The government had already announced that support for families would be back from the first week of January&amp;period; You can find out more about this "help"&amp;nbsp&amp;semi;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;noticiasaominuto&period;com&sol;economia&sol;1896905&sol;apoio-famlia-est-prestes-a-regressar-como-funciona-em-cinco-questes">here<&sol;a>&amp;period;&amp;nbsp&amp;semi;<&sol;p>&amp;NewLine;&amp;NewLine;&amp;NewLine;&amp;NewLine;<p><strong>The&amp;rsquo&amp;semi;aid&amp;comma; remember&amp;comma; is intended for those with children under the age of 12&amp;comma; but in the case of teleworking&amp;comma; it only concerns parents whose children are in school up to&amp;rsquo&amp;semi;grade 4&amp;period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&amp;NewLine;