Does your primary school do this? Home visit on Day 3 of illness

[Moonshinebaby]

So my son (4 years) is off with chicken pox at the moment. This is his 3rd day of illness.

Since he's started reception in September, he's only had 2 previous sick days due to vomiting.

It's in the school's policy that they will visit a child on the 3rd day of sickness.

I thought they are bluffing, but they actually have just been around.

The lady said that it has nothing to do with my parenting, but that they need to do spot checks.

I asked and they said there are a few cases of chickenpox at the school at the moment.

Does your primary school do this?

No

I'm really sorry to hear that you had this experience. This it is precisely why it is important that any kind of Safeguarding check is applied to everyone who reaches the threshold without any prior assumptions.
Years ago, I had to take one of my young children to A&E in my own hospital with an injury that could potentially have been non accidental and I was really pleased that they went through the Safeguarding process and I got a follow up visit from the HV. Yes, it was embarrassing, both for me and the A&E staff but it was great to see they were doing their jobs properly. The Consultant could easily have said "Oh, I know Dr Doc really well and there's no way she would ever hurt her children, we'll just skip through these questions quickly" but he was as thorough as I think he would have been with anyone, which is exactly how it should be. I hadn't hurt my child but having a good salary and living in a desirable postcode does not mean that I couldn't have. Child abuse and neglect is not restricted to any particular group.
It's the same with some medical issues. The preoperative assessment checklist in our Trust requires everyone to be asked about recreational drug use. I do feel a bit of an idiot asking 85 year olds coming for a hip replacement if they take drugs but were I to ask only the people that I think look like they might be drug abusers there's no doubt I would miss important information. There's also some evidence that if particular lines of questioning are known to be universal more people do tell the truth because they don't feel like they're being singled out for judgement, just being asked a legitimate medical question. And actually I have had a few elderly patients tell me that they smoke cannabis for pain relief so my inbuilt assumption would have been wrong if I had been allowed to apply it! Consistency is key to the success of so many processes.
HCPs, teachers etc are human beings and we do all have prejudices to some degree, just like everyone else, but they mustn't influence our work. I don't know if a visit on an arbitrary day of absence is really an effective Safeguarding measure or not, it's not my field of expertise. But if an LEA is going to have that policy then it needs to be applied consistently and universally or it almost certainly won't achieve its aims.

It's the same with some medical issues. The preoperative assessment checklist in our Trust requires everyone to be asked about recreational drug use. The checks doctors do are both to protect the patient and to cover the Trust if something goes wrong. Blanket policies are designed to cover an organisation legally and are usually tick box questionnaires with responsibility put onto the patient to provide the necessary info. If the patient lies, they put themselves at risk.

Child protection is completely different. We need far greater investment in serious child protection resources - social workers, children's centres, safer foster care and children's homes.