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Paid childcare

Discuss everything related to paid childcare here, including childminders, nannies, nurseries and au pairs.

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Mindee with no injections

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Kidstrack · 07/09/2006 18:10

Hi all, been registered for a few months and have just started meeting potential mindees and loads of phone calls, i had a call the other night asking if i would look after a 4m in which his mum had refused all injections, thats the 2,3,4m injections plus 2 men c vaccine, i kinda hesitated and said i think so, anyway the mum is phoning other childminders as well, but now i have had time to think about it, i really wouldn't like to care for a child that has not been protected against many illnesses, what do you all think!

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Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

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SoupDragon · 07/09/2006 18:13

Isn't it only the unvaccinated child who is at risk though?

Katymac · 07/09/2006 18:19

You would have to insist n being paid even when they were off

You may put other children at risk as the minded child gets older

eg younger as yet unvaccinated children could catch things from the older unvaccinated child iyswim & also pregnant mums as lots of us haven't been vaccinated

HenniPenni · 07/09/2006 18:21

Young babies could also be at risk. I.E the ones who are too young to have the immunisations. I'm not really sure what I would do in this situation. Sorry!

HenniPenni · 07/09/2006 18:22

X post! Great minds an all that!

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Kidstrack · 07/09/2006 18:26

i was thinking both would be at risk, but not totally sure, i was thinking surely if the baby developed one of the illness and it hadn't been vacinated against i.e men c it would be a higher strep that would be passed to the vaccinated children, but obviously the vaccinated children wouldn't have it so bad, and also say an older vaccinated child had measels or similar and passed it to the baby not vaccinated then it would be dangerous to the baby! I honestly don't know, i'm wondering wether to contact the care commission?

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HappyMumof2 · 07/09/2006 18:28

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HappyMumof2 · 07/09/2006 18:28

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alibubbles · 08/09/2006 14:16

Yes, nurseries can take on unvaccinated children. Yu cannot discriminate against the child on the basis of not having been done. I had two children in my care at the same time and I have been vaccinated and kept them up to date. I got whooping cough one winter, the kids were vaccinated pretty quickly after that!

You cannot tell the parents of the other children in your care either because of confidentiality.

A difficult one!

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