if LO not well enough for school surely he is not well enough for CM?

I know this is going off on a bit of a tangent but when blondes commented it made me wonder, what would a nanny do if a child were off school sick? Would they still have the child? What if it was something like chicken pox and the nanny had not had this / was pregnant?

(Is chicken pox one of the things dangerous to a pregnant person? Brain is fuzzy this morning! Hopefully you'll know what I mean.. I would have used swine flu as an example but it usually illicits a mixture of responses, some VERY dramatic!)

I don't look after children who are too ill for school. To start with, I don't have a contract to care for them during school hours.

I care for a three year old girl who was here last week with a bad cold. The 3 year old boy I care for is at home with Dad today because he has picked it up. So his Dad had to take time off work to be at home with him. However as they all bring their pre schoolers to me with colds they can't really complain if they pass it around.

agree to ill for school, then too ill for cm

I put in my handbook that I cannot care for children who are away from school because of sickness. The HPA guidance for sickness, diarrhoea etc applies to childcare just as it does to schools (although this is guidance and not law). Also, if the child isn't well enough to cope with the school routine, gym/playtime etc then they will also have difficulty with the school run, park, toddler groups and any other activity the childminder has planned.

ome childminders will accept children who are "off-colour" and have no sickness/diarrhoea/temperature and don't need a gp visit - just lots of rest. But this will normally not be guaranteed but be decided on an individual basis - on whether there are any other mindees present, whether the other mindees have the same condition and whether there are any commitments, eg school runs, that day.

If the child isn't well enough to be mixing with children at school why is it ok to expose CM to whatever s/he has? A CM being there to provide childcare is one thing but to be expected to look after a child who isn't well enough to go to school is unreasonable IMO.
Not very fair on the poorly child either.
OP - what have you said to the mum?

shiny surely even if he has the sniffles he will not wanted to be bundled off to the CM. He will want his own bed and his own toys, and his mummy.

He won't want to be at the CM and having to do what the other children are doing, or being dragged off to the school at 3.30pm to pick up the CM's other charges.

Nor should the other charges be exposed to coughs / sniffles from this poorly child.

If he is too sick for school, then he should be at home or with grandma etc, not at the CM.

From a mums POV childminders are childcare no? I'd be mightily pissed off if I missed work because My CM wouldn't have my dc.

If he just has the sniffles or something, maybe he just needs to rest. Which he could do with you. Obv if he is severly ill, she would have had him at the doctors.

I agree and would say thanks but no thanks! Too ill for school = stay at home!