To think a child shouldn't be off sick from school but be able to go shopping with parent?

[AlexanderandPie]

Or is this acceptable?

My child -my decision as to what I see fit to on a sick day.

Reminds me of being 'seen' in Sainsburys by a colleague on a sick day. Dreadful cold and headache, after a long lie in I'd dragged out for some lemsip and food supplies. Interrogated about it once back at work though!

Same employer, I once called in at 8:30 to say I was at the gp (needed antibiotics) and would be in slightly late (15minutes) - once I arrived was told that would be a half days holiday. Called in sick for every little thing after that, not worth making the effort for them.

*When I worked in Education Welfare we regularly did truancy patrols with the police around the city centre

What has that got to do with the question here?*

I was simply pointing out that to some Local Authorities and Police it is unacceptable.

Get a life, OP! Beak out.

Skaross you haven't proved that it's unacceptable in some LAs. The LAs and police were looking for DCs who were traunting. A DC who is off sick and in town with a parent's approval is not traunting.

What were those of us with no family support supposed to do if we needed to pop out to the supermarket or pharmacy whilst child was ill and home from school? Starve? Not buy the necessary medication?

I took mine to the supermarket if necessary and if they were not so bad that they wouldn't have coped. Shoot me if you want to. Should I just have left them home alone and unsupervised while I buggered off to make sure that the rest of the family would still be fed that evening?

Sometimes when recovering from some things a little bit of fresh air is good anyway, if the weather permits.

Of course it is acceptable, within reason.

DS was off school with impetigo for 2 days. That's a very infectious skin rash - not allowed back to school until he'd been on antibiotics for a period of time. He came out shopping etc. with me. Doctor said that was fine. He was perfectly well and only infectious on skin-to-skin contact, which was no issue.

Jessicajonesjacket

I’m sorry but you’re wrong we stopped and took the details of every child who was out with their parents.

skaross i home educate my children, i would be under no obligation to give you any details.

My school has a strict policy of being out 48 hours after any vomit or diarrhea. So I have been to a playpark with my DC on the second day of her being off when she is basically fine and having been cooped up indoors for the first 24 hours of actually feeling poorly is ready for some fresh air.

Of course they should. Plenty of illnesses where kids will need a recovery day and aren't well enough to do 6+ hours at school, or are considered still contagious, but are well enough to go down the shops and get some fresh air. DD was off on her last birthday by bad coincidence, she was in no way ready for a full day at school but we went into town, pottered around the shops for half an hour and had some lunch in a café.

EB123 It would have been the Police Officer that would ask for your details. Simply so we could check that Home
Education was the case.

One of mine was ill the other week - fine once Calpol kicked in but when it wore off insta-flump again. School won't give non-prescription medicine so she ended up staying off with me... and yeah we popped into Tescos when she was perky. Don't really care if anyone saw us or whatever (since it's next to school and typically you could assemble a quorate PTA meeting 10 minutes after drop off on an average school day it's fairly likely) as we had valid reasons she was off school and no milk.

Quite often you'll see my other one in a local/express shop with me during school hours - usually she's been taken out for a medical appointment we're running a bit too early for so I'm picking up whatever we need while waiting and she'll be dropped straight back to school as soon as the appointment's over.

Nope, i wouldn't need to say anything more than that my children are home educated therefore not registered at a school and not who the sweep is targeting. How woukd a police officer check i was home educating? There is no register.

I would only need to give more information if the police offer had any specific concerns which they would need to voice to me before asking for my details. Home educating should not be a concern in itself, if i state that i am home educating and the officer has no other concerns that should be the end of it.

Skaross you are wrong. It's not traunting to be in town with (or without) a parent when you're off school ill.
You may have asked their details so you could check with the school if they were traunting but they weren't.

If you get burgled the police won't even come. I cant imagine that these days the police have the resources to wander around towns looking for truanting kids.

Depends doesn't it? Of you aren't contagious sometimes a little bit if fresh air helps and if you are waiting in Tesco for your prescription why not grab some bits for tea or try on that t shirt while you are there ...

In the case of needing a.mental health day go for it. It's not 6 hours of schopl you aren't up to its the bullying or the stress of yet more days practice you can't cope with that day. More than ever then some quiet time and a bit of a treat is needed.

Surely it's people who should be at work or whatever themselves who are making the judgements

Sats practice

Skarossinkplunger find it very difficult to believe this actually happens. You know, what with the total lack of resources and everything.

If you'd approached me in a shop or in town you'd have been politely told to bugger off go away. Police or no police.

EB122 In our LA parents are required to inform the authority that their children are home educated. It may be different in yours.

Jessicajonesjacket I didn’t actually say they were truanting. We stopped and checked as part of the truancy patrol.

Tamingoftheglue The truancy patrols stopped in our authority when the councils had their budgets cut and no longer employed EWO’s. I can’t speak for the police. The police officer’s were enforcing Section 444 of The Education Act and therefore if you refused to give details it would be taken further.

I’d like to point out here that everything here is simple fact this was a regular part of my job. I’m not saying it happened in every local authority and I’m not saying I agree with it. It was just one of my duties.

Most parents we stopped were lovely about it and completely understood why it was done. However on one occasion the officer did arrest a father who was verbally abusive to me.

Sometimes you have to go out for essentials. Also if school insists they stay home but it is not infectious then surely you can do whatever you want.

One of mine has occasional migraines and has been known to turn all pasty and quiet at school before throwing up everywhere then, as soon as I've got him home make and devour a plate full of toast and spend his 48 hours generally driving me up the wall.

So of course I'll take him to the shops with me!

@PickAChew does your son leats vomit? If so this is CVS. My son has it too. A right fucking pain when I know exactly what it is yet as it's exactly the same each 5 weeks yet have to keep him off 3 days!!!

@PickAChew always vomit.

And mine is fine after a few hours with more energy than before!