02/04/2015
Children’s World Sick or Infectious Children
In accordance with the Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Requirements and Every Child Matters outcomes,
Children’s World have a strict exclusion policy for sick or infectious diseases, enabling us to take positive steps
to prevent infection and take appropriate action when a child becomes ill. We follow Health Protection Authority
(HPA) guidelines to ensure the safety of children, staff and visitors.
As a team we concluded that these statements and procedures best put the children’s and staff’s health & well
being first:
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We reserve the right to refuse entry to any child we feel is not well enough to attend the nursery setting.
Typical examples are where cross infection can occur, or if the child would not benefit from attending
due to being uncomfortable or upset. We will fully explain any reasons and will have discussed/agreed
with the Manager. In order to record accurate accounts with factual information if a child is sent home
we will use the child exclusion form and keep them with the child’s information, in a secure, locked cabinet
in the office. This will also help us to monitor how and when children are excluded and for which
communicable disease/ reason.
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If a child becomes unwell during a session we will contact the parent/carer immediately to inform them.
If they are unhappy, at risk of infecting others or unable to benefit by attending, we will ask the
parent/carer to come and collect their child. In some cases we will monitor & phone back after a suitable
period of time.
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If a child has symptoms such as sickness, diarrhoea, rash, or any other infectious sign or symptom, we
would ask the parent to pick up the child immediately and take them to a doctor before returning to
nursery. When a child has sickness and/or diarrhoea, we ask the parent to refrain from bringing their
child into the setting for at least 48 hours after the last symptom or until the symptoms have completely
cleared to prevent cross infection.
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Sick children, where possible, should be organised into the smallest sized group, or 1:1 with a member of
staff. If appropriate, the child should be taken to a separate room in order to minimise cross infection.
The child’s welfare and parental wishes must be taken into account, ensure that they are appropriately
and sensitively cared for, whilst ensuring the continuity of the other children’s routines. The sick child
must receive appropriate care & attention, regardless of how staffs are arranged.
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Average body temperature for children is 37 degrees; we will telephone parents/carers if a child’s
temperature changes significantly and gain verbal permission to administer Calpol which may suppress the
temperature for a period. We would re-check temperature at regular intervals of 15 minutes. If it
reaches 35 or below we will monitor for a suitable period of time. We ask parents to record their child’s
normal body temperature at time of enrolment.
There is a list of notifiable diseases (Page 2) which we have a legal obligation to report to the HPA and Ofsted
should a child within our care become infected. In these cases we work closely with you the parents, the HPA and
Ofsted to ensure we follow any additional advice that may be given.
Policy Review
This policy will be reviewed March 2016 or whenever there is a major change in organisation or in relevant
legislation.
02/04/2015
Notifiable Diseases
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Acute encephalitis
Acute infectious hepatitis
Acute meningitis
Acute poliomyelitis
Anthrax
Botulism
Brucellosis
Cholera
Diphtheria
Enteric fever (typhoid or paratyphoid fever)
Food poisoning
Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS)
Infectious bloody diarrhoea
Invasive group A streptococcal disease
Legionnaires’ disease
Leprosy
Malaria
Measles
Meningococcal septicaemia
Mumps
Plague
Rabies
Rubella
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
Scarlet fever
Smallpox
Tetanus
Tuberculosis
Typhus
Viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF)
Whooping cough
Yellow fever