Download Exclusion from Playgroup from Common Illness

Recommendations for Exclusion from Playgroup from Common Illnesses:
DISEASE / ILLNESS
MINIMUM EXCLUSION PERIOD
Chicken Pox
5 days from onset of rash.
Conjunctivitis
No exclusion but parents encouraged to keep child
at home until the eyes are no longer weeping.
Coughs and Colds
Please use common sense with coughs and colds.
Once the symptoms have improved the child may
come back to Playgroup.
Diarrhoea, vomiting
Ear Infections
All cases are to be excluded from school until the
child has been free from diarrhoea/vomiting for 48
hours.
Kept at home until the child feels well.
Hand, Foot and Mouth
Until the child feels well.
Head Lice (pediculosis)
None. Children do not need to be excluded but
parents are requested to ensure treatment occurs
where live lice have been seen.
Impetigo
For 48 hours from the start of antibiotic treatment
or until skin has healed.
* Measles
5 days from appearance of rash.
* Mumps
Until swelling has subsided and in no case less than 5
days from onset of illness.
5 days from onset of rash.
*Rubella (German Measles)
Scarlet Fever/Streptococcal infection
Slap cheek/Parvovirus/Fifth’s Disease
Temperature
Threadworm
Verrucae (Plantar Warts)
*Whooping Cough (Pertussis)
5 days from commencing antibiotics, if well enough
to return.
No exclusion but may affect vulnerable children and
adults.
The child must be off until well, and 24 hours
beyond that.
No exclusion but parents are requested to ensure
treatment of all family members occurs.
Exclusion (swimming or other barefoot activities) is
not necessary provided the warts remain covered
with occlusive plaster.
21 days from onset of cough, or 5 days after the
start of antibiotics.
*Some infections are to be notified to the Local Authority under the Public Health (Infectious Diseases)
Regulations 1988. Please inform the school if your child contracts one of these illnesses.