To make a complaint about a nursery.

Some of the recent posts @pollymere @stample are assuming that all nurseries have the same policies. They dont, each setting will have their own

Probably mistook the temperature for her being warm layered up. In theory most nurseries have to monitor temperature for 20 mins before calling parent to give calpol unless their temperature is already at 38 degrees. Also yes sickness and diarrhoea is 48 hours since last bout but calpol is 24hours since last dose

I always thought they'd give Calpol and then take no further action if temp was then normal. Did they only take one temp? Presumably it will be recorded in a Day Book somewhere... I'd have expected the temperature to be taken after Calpol was administered too before calling you with an hour elapse.

It does sound very suspicious to me! Nothing to do with whether your child was warm or not... If they weren't ill why were they given Calpol and then you came and collected your child who clearly had no temperature. Kids also get temperatures from having vaccinations etc.

Surely they took it her temperature with a thermometer. Ask what it was. This only reads raised temperature when you have one and not just warm. Calpol can take down a temperature quickly and makes child feel better. If they didn’t take a temperature and record it I wouldn’t accept having to stay off. I work with children so I know what I’m talking about.

In the event this happens again….. I’d insist they check again 30 minutes later.
Will you still have to pay for tomorrow? That would really wind me up! Having to pay for a days care she can’t have purely because they are being ridiculous!

My Dd takes after her father and her temp shoots up the minute she gets a sniffle. When she was a toddler I've seen her happily playing about the house with a temp of 39+ It used to take all my nerve not to rush her to Gp, but commonsense had to prevail if she appeared fine. I'd be suspicious too that they couldn't justify staffing one room with just 2 children

I'd be wanting to know what prompted them to take her temperature in the first place.
Did they say?

I would email the manager personally and tell them that as per the nursery policy 24 hours after her ‘temperature’ is X time tomorrow so that is the time your child will be back at nursery as she did not have a temperature upon collection and has been absolutely fine ever since. I would bet money on the other child also having been sent home sick and them being short staffed in other rooms for tomorrow so they’ve now managed to free up the staff in your daughter’s room so that they don’t need to organise and pay for agency staff. Or some other reason that makes it convenient for them to have that room closed for the day.

I wouldn't be making exciting plans for tomorrow. I would be taking her into nursery to be honest. There's absolutely no reason she needs to be off until Wednesday.

This exact thing happened to me today too, and last week as well. He was running round outside with friends when I picked him up.

I and many others feel your pain. I had one sent home from school and not allowed in for two days because he told them he’d been sick the day before. He’d gorged himself on chocolate, biscuits and cake at a party and he threw some of it up. Absolutely nothing wrong with him except being greedy.

38.1°. That’s convenient. I bet they had a woolly hat on her and she’d her running so around so got hot, then taken her temperature straight away. That’s enough to throw off a tympanic reading and probably an IR (which are notoriously inaccurate anyway).

Yeah what this is is the nursery staff only having two kids left so if they can send them home, its a free day off.

I would need to see a video of them taking my child's temperature with no jumper on before I'd come and collect.

I'd not want nursery staff who can't count to 24 looking after my child.

Didn't you clarify why Wednesday when their own policy says 24 hours?

That’s ridiculous. At that age mine got temps with teething. If they were sent home and then couldn’t return for 2 days they’d never be there

Me.

Also wondering if they actually measured her temperature?

I have to admit I was wondering. It sounds like a great way to free up staff.

Anyone else wondering if the only other child from her class was also sent home “sick”?

24 hours is up at about 10am tomorrow (guessing the timing), so that's when I'd drop her back.

Id assume they actually used a digital thermometer on her, didn't they? You can't just feel a child with a hand.

I've only heard of exclusion times for D&V, plus other named things, not a general fever.

She had only been there an hour and the policy is 24 hours so just take her in a little later tomorrow. I’m sure they will complain but it’s their policy so
all you can do is follow it. Our old nursery had this same policy and it was silly at times