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Infectious Diseases Policy
We aim to provide a healthy and safe environment for the children and for the staff to
work in. We will do all in our power to prevent the spread of infection and to promote
good health.
Procedure
Infection in a Nursery can spread rapidly, not only amongst children, but also staff.
Parents are required to keep their children at home if they have any infection and to
inform the child’s Keyworker as to the nature of the infection to enable other Parents to
be alerted.
Any child who is obviously unwell on arrival at Nursery will not be accepted. If your child
becomes unwell during the course of the day you will be contacted and, if necessary,
asked to collect. If we are unable to contact you personally we will of course telephone
the other numbers that you have given us as alternatives and make the child as
comfortable as possible until somebody is able to collect them. It is therefore essential
that you keep our emergency contact numbers up to date.
When dealing with infectious diseases the nursery will take adhere to the Government
publication:
Guidance on infection control in schools and other childcare settings
All infectious illnesses must be reported to the child’s Keyworker who will advise on the
exclusion period necessary, and inform other parents. (This also applies to all staff)
This particularly applies to German Measles, as this can be extremely harmful to
expectant mothers.
If you would like more information on symptoms and incubation periods of any infectious
illness please speak to a member of staff.
In case of an emergency the Nursery reserves the right to remove a child to Hospital.
Epidemics
In the situation of an epidemic arising the nursery will follow Government and County
guidelines issuing instructions to parents as they arise. Operation plans will be drawn up
as the need arises.
Public Health England (PHE) aims to detect possible outbreaks of disease and
epidemics as rapidly as possible. Accuracy of diagnosis is secondary, and since 1968
clinical suspicion of a notifiable infection is all that’s required.
Wren’s Nursery; Infectious Diseases Policy; Reviewed May 2016
‘Notification of infectious diseases’ is the term used to refer to the statutory duties for
reporting notifiable diseases in the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 and the
Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010.
There are 35 diseases currently classified as 'notifiable'. When a general practitioner or
other doctor in attendance suspects that a patient is suffering from a notifiable disease,
he or she is legally required to inform the Director of Public Health.
List of notifiable diseases
Diseases notifiable to local authority proper officers under the Health Protection
(Notification) Regulations 2010:
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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
Wren’s Nursery; Infectious Diseases Policy; Reviewed May 2016
Wren’s Nursery; Infectious Diseases Policy; Reviewed May 2016