EXCLUSIONS
The safety and welfare of our children, staff and families is paramount. Children are best cared for at home if they are unwell.
Our minimum exclusion period remains in effect irrespective of advice from medical professionals or government guidelines.When we are unsure of a child's condition, we reserve the right to exclude them from coming to nursery until we are sure of their condition We take into account recommendations from Government and World Health Organisation guidelines, along with the potential implications of infections on the well-being of our children, families, staff, and operations, when determining the minimum exclusion period in our settings. We highly recommend parents to consult with us before their child's return to the setting.
Please note that we retain the right to modify this list at any time, with immediate effect.
EXCLUSION DIARIES
Please check the list below in the "Our Minimum Exclusion Period" section to find the relevant diary.
Then click on the relevant diary to submit your sickness absence notification.
WHEN CAN MY CHILD RETURN TO NURSERY?
Your child is allowed back to nursery after the minimum exclusion period and only if they are well enough to be at the setting and:
- No longer have high temperature
- Spots are completely scabbed over
- Blisters have entirely healed and dried
- Lesions are crusted and healed
- Not been advised by a medical professional not to attend an education setting or to self-isolate
OUR MINIMUM EXCLUSION PERIOD
24 HOURS
- Antibiotics: After 1st dose
- High Temperature: 24 hours after fever
- Immunisations
- Nail ringworm: After starting treatment
- Ring Worm: After starting treatment
- Scarlet Fever: After starting treatment
48 HOURS
- Bacillary (Shigella)
- Cryptosporidiosis: After symptoms have stopped
- Diarrhoea: After diarrhoea and vomiting have stopped
- E.Coli: After diarrhoea and vomiting have stopped
- Food poisoning (inc Samonella): After diarrhoea and vomiting have stopped
- Giardia: After diarrhoea and vomiting have stopped
- Gastroenteritis: After the last episode of diarrhoea/vomiting
- Impetigo: After commencing antibiotic treatment
- Rotavirus: After the symptoms have subsided
- Vomiting: After the last episode
- Whooping Cough: After starting treatment
4 DAYS
- Measles: After the onset of rash & recovered
5 DAYS
- Flu (Influenza)
- Hand, Foot and Mouth: After symptoms start
- Loss or Change of Taste or Smell
- German Measles (Rubella): After the onset of rash
- High Temperature with a New Continuous Cough
- Mumps: After the onset of swollen glands
- New Continuous Cough
- Scabies: Subject to starting treatment
- Sore Throat
- Steptococcal Infection: After starting antibiotics
- Unknown Rash: From start of the rash. To be update once rash is known
- Whooping Cough: From the start of treatment
7 DAYS
- Chicken Pox (Varicella)
- Hepatitis A: After the onset of jaundice or other symptoms
10 DAYS
- Positive Covid-19: Return 24 hours after testing negative following a minimum 5 days exclusion
- Unknown New and Continuous Cough. To be updated once the cause of the cough is known
14 DAYS
- Tuberculosis (TB): After starting treatment in a specialist TB treatment centre
21 DAYS
- Scarlet Fever: If no treatment
- Whooping Cough: From the onset of symptoms, if no antibiotics treatment was started
- Monkeypox/Mpox
WE FOLLOW MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL'S ADVICE ON WHEN TO RETURN
- Diptheria
- Hepatitis B and E
- Meningococcal Meningitis and Septicaemia
- Panton-Valentine Leukocidin Staphylococcus Aureus (PVL-SA)
- Poliomyelitis
- Slapped Cheek Fifth Disease/Parvo Virus B19
- Typhoid and Paratyphoid
We will consult HPT before disseminating information to staff, parents and carers.
UNTIL FULLY TREATED AND/OR RECOVERED
- Shingles
- Scabies
No admission if on medications
NO EXCLUSION
- Athlete’s Foot
- Conjunctivitis
- Chronic Hepatitis B
- Glandular fever
- Hepatitis C
- HIV
- Meningitis Viral
- Minor Cough and Common Cold
- Molluson Contagiosum
- Cold Sores: (Herpes simplex)
- Covid-19 Symptoms: If a PCR or LF test is provided
- Head Lice: We will exclude if not treated
- MRSA Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus
- Rhinorrhea (Runny Nose)
- Thread Worm
- Tinea Capitis (fungal scalp infection)
- Tonsillitis
- Verruca
SOME NOTIFIABLE DISEASES
TO THE UK HEALTH SECURITY AGENCY "UKHSA"
- Any evidence of severe disease due to respiratory infection
- Covid-19: If there is a rapid increase in cases
- Cryptosporidiosis: If 2 cases occur
- Diarrhoea and vomiting (gastroenteritis): If there is a rapid increase in cases
- Food Poisoning: If 2 cases of similar symptoms occur
- Giardia: If 2 cases of similar symptoms occur
- Meningitis: If 2 cases occur within four weeks
- Meningococcal Meningitis and Septicaemia
- Monkeypox/Mpox
- Scarlet Fever: If cases are circulating
- Tuberculosis (TB)
- Typhoid and Paratyphoid fever
EXCLUSION FAQs
HOW DO YOU COUNT THE EXCLUSION PERIOD?
- We start counting the day after the notification.
For example, for a ten-day exclusion period, if you notify us that your child is ill on the 1st, your child can only return to the setting on or after the 12th.
- Children can only return for their session if the end of their exclusion period means their session has yet to start.
For example, on a 24-hour exclusion, if the exclusion finishes at 10 am, but your session starts at 8 am, you can only return the following day. If your exclusion ends at 10 am, but your session starts at 1 pm, you can return the same day.
WHEN DOES THE EXCLUSION PERIOD START?
- When parents notify us of the first symptoms
- When we notice the first symptoms
WHAT COVID-19 TESTS DO YOU ACCEPT?
- Lateral Flow Test (LFT):
We only accept a result reported to the NHS.
We only accept test results performed on or after day 4. The test result must be shared with us on the day it is completed, on days 4 and 5 or later.
Please do NOT share with us screenshots of your test strip.
- PCR Tests are accepted from the day it is performed up to 14 days after.
Test results sent after 6 pm or on the weekend, Bank holidays, or nursery closure will be dealt with after 10 am the next working day. Test results can be sent to any of our email addresses, preferably directly to the Lead Manager.