Covid contact at childminders

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Childminder let's DH and I know her daughter is currently isolating for 14 days as a pupil tested positive at her school. Her daughter has no symptoms and is fine so by current guidelines she can stay open and will still be charging if we choose to not send him. And now were arguing over it!

YANBU - It's rife in our local area, this is going to be happening constantly, with a positive case of course but we can't miss work to keep him home everytime someone has a potential contact because it's everywhere atm

YABU - keep him home and don't risk it

If you can work from home for a couple of weeks without too much stress then I'd choose that option. But if you can't, then I guess you'll have to go to work. In most childcare setups you wouldn't know if someone there had contact with someone who is self isolating so don't over think too much. For instance if of of the mindees had a school age sibling or parent who had to isolate because of a close contact, you'd more than likely never know.

There is no voting but I think you just have to accept there is a risk. This issue comes in many forms. My baby goes to Nursery and no issues have been there so far but I don't know the circumstances of the staffs' home life. He sees his half siblings their secondary school has quite a few cases and I work with the traveling public and come into contact with them albeit wearing PPE. There is risk everywhere unfortunately. Unless you're CEV I would carry on sending your DC.

She can only stay open with her daughter in the house if the daughter will not be in any of the shared areas where the children ar. You are within your rights to ask how she is going to ensure this, and if she cannot then she cannot allow children into her home.

Annoys me as dh insists we can't send him but in the same breath claims his job is too important to miss! So I am the one having to miss my work despite the fact I'm happy to send him!

Well if you're the one that would have to be off and you are happy to send him, say to DH if you don't help over these 2 weeks (although should be less as it will be 2 weeks from last contact at school), then we send him in. But again, if the childminder cannot provide assurance that her daughter will be completely separated from the children at all times (which is hard, and depends on age really how likely that is) then she should be closing and not charging.

It's simple. If you're DH doesn't want to send him, then he stays home. If he won't/can't stay home then what to do its your decision.

I would be checking that the minder's daughter will be in a different part of the house though.

Send him in. Tell dh if he is that bothered he takes the time off.

The education rules are crazy. There are kids in my daughters year that are now on their third two week isolation. Be prepared because that could easily be your CM children!!

I first read your post as the daughter being ill but now realise she’s “only” self-isolating.

Kids are self isolating all the time. The vast majority of them (afaik) don’t get ill. It would be unreasonable to expect the childminder to close and refund you every time this happens. I would want to be sure that the daughter and my child were not sharing any spaces though.

My DCs nursery has had 2 positive cases in the last couple of months. We’ve had no option but to send them to nursery as neither of us were allowed time off work unless our DC was told to isolate. We were very anxious at first but we now accept that this will keep happening and we’ve basically got to get on with it.

Is the childminder's daughter old enough to be isolated from the minded children? Is so then the childminder can remain open. It is then your choice to continue using your child's space or to not send your child but continue paying for the space so you can resume using the space later.

If you can work from home effectively with your child at home with you, then do so to minimise risk.

This happened to our childminder recently as her son had to self isolate, and she closed and refunded us for that two weeks.

If her child is self-isolating that surely it's illogical to have her child mixing with other kids in a childcare setting?

YANBU

@KitKat1985

This happened to our childminder recently as her son had to self isolate, and she closed and refunded us for that two weeks.

If her child is self-isolating that surely it's illogical to have her child mixing with other kids in a childcare setting?

of course but the childminder can theoretically separate her mindees from her own child (depending on age) - whether or not this actually happens is another matter. I would say this is unrealistic unless the child is at least 12 or so.

Would depend on the age of her daughter,is she really going to stay isolated away all day? Are toilet facilities shared?