To find this unacceptable?

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Went to pick up my neighbours daughter from nursery today. I noticed there was one staff member clutching her stomach and looking unwell. She was bank staff as have seen her before. I asked if she was OK and she said she had just vomited in the toilets but had been told she wasn't allowed to go home due to staffing levels and needing a level 3 worker in the room !
Aibu to say this is unacceptable?

Why did you ask if you think you’re right? What was the point in that. Just crack on with your day.

I doubt anyone finds it acceptable.
But safety is priority for those children.
Nursery need to get in a replacement staff member (but if using bank staff sounds like a possible staffing issue).

Hopefully lots of children get collected earlier today and the staff member can be released.

What's your solution??

she may have the latest variant of Covid, but she'd have to go into work if she does anyway.

OP goes very quietly on that question! 😆

They obviously had no choice. They can't just leave when there's too many kids per adult. It's not safe. And they could get disciplined/shut down if it happened regularly. You don't know she was contagious. If she got a bug it could well have been off one of the children.
It's not ideal and I were her I'd speak to management if it's occuring regularly. It would seem that day there was simply no other option.
Sometimes people do have to be in work sick. It's just a sad fact of life, coupled with staff shortages and illness being unavoidable.

Oh I'm sorry. I didn't realise I had to reply to every one of you individually so you feel you are right and I should feel shamed for my reasoning @nutrosti .Honestly . This place......

ok

how about just respond to anyone regarding your solution

i’d wager your neighbour will be a tad evasive about the nursery’s response to your calling.

Why? because she didn’t call 😆

'she is going to speak to management.'

😂

Some people are insufferable

It’s a no-win situation OP as the nursery has to choose to either breach the ratios or breach D&V policy. Both those policies are in place for risk mitigation.

The severity of something happening to a child if there aren’t enough staff around is potentially much higher than the severity of a child vomiting.

You don’t actually know if the worker’s condition is contagious, so there’s no evidence that the likelihood of spreading a bug is any greater than the likelihood of an accident happening with too few staff around.

As awful as it is for the worker having to stay on, and any child who might end up vomiting, the nursery probably made the right choice.