Strep A & scarlet fever outbreak

[LeatherBo]

What constitutes and outbreak? How are schools supposed to manage if one, 2 or more pupils in a. class or across year groups get diagnosed with this?

Will they ask groups to isolate? Do they have to communicate outbreak clusters to parents?

What would make best sense to keep schools and children safe?

We had a scarlet fever outbreak in my son's reception class about a month ago. There was advice on symptoms and treatment sent to the parents for the whole school - sensible with older siblings etc. It went quiet then another email have come out today about a child in an older class with scarlet fever, reiterating the advice and updating with info re step A. No one isolated or anything like that.

As cases rise I am more and more concerned for my daughter. At the moment schools seem to just be advising better hygiene practice for fear of hysteria.
I have the luxury of having access to lots of strep a lateral flow tests, as my husband owns a testing company. But I wonder, how many other parents even know rapid testing exists?!

I didn't know you could buy tests kit. My son has come home today ill which I am worrying about now. He's 10 years old attends a special school and is non verbal so trying to find out what's wrong is difficult. He's no temperature but off food and very tired. Hoping he's feeling better tomorrow but keeping him off school.

Thanks
Sal

I’m a teacher and a child at my school has strep A but the head teacher hasn’t openly disclosed this to staff. It’s dealt with the same as anything important in my school and kept a secret 🤦🏼‍♀️

My kids’ school sent an email yesterday saying that a few children and a member of staff have been diagnosed with confirmed scarlet fever, and just asked everyone to be vigilant of the listed symptoms, and what to do if your child displays the symptoms. Nothing else they can really do, I guess.