EXCLUSIONS

Our minimum exclusion period applies even if a medical professional or government guidelines advise otherwise.

We consider Government and World Health Organisation guidelines and the potential impacts an infection can have on our children, families, employees and business when making decisions regarding the minimum exclusion period in our settings.

We strongly advise parents to check with us before returning to the setting.

We reserve the right to make changes to this list at any time, effective immediately. 

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

24 HOURS

- Antibiotics: After 1st dose

- 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 

- High Temperature

- 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

NO EXCLUSION

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

- Scarlet Fever: If cases are circulating

- Tuberculosis (TB)

- Typhoid and Paratyphoid fever

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