Nursery repeatedly sending child home with no symptoms, could it be staffing?

[Cinai2]

Nursery called me a couple of times recently to collect DS because he has a temperature, but when I got there half an hour later, he seemed absolutely fine and no temperature detectable. I did challenge it last time. Last week they called me and said DS vomited and although he seems fine and has no fever, I need to collect him. DS again absolutely fine, didn’t vomit anymore and didn’t develop a temperature. Also no signs of vomit on his clothes, basically no indication that this happened at all. Each temperature or vomiting triggers a 48 hour exclusion so he was home a lot recently without reason. He also was home when he was actually ill. I don’t send him in when he’s unwell and I understand the exclusion policy IF there is an illness, but I feel I’m losing trust in them and I can’t help wonder if they send him home because they are short on staff.

It could be..but it also might not. I can’t tell you many times, as a teacher I’ve sent a child home who was clearly poorly at school to be told the next day they were absolutely fine when they got home!!

If they call for a temperature, bring a thermometer or ask them to check his temperature again when you get there - if no temp then say he'll stay.

Yes one of our nurseries did this. 80% of the time. I pulled him out in the end and he miraculously stopped being so sick. So either their nursery hygiene was appalling or they were lying due to staffing. Either way, we were better off out of there!

Yes.
Really common here.

That’s what I did last time when I challenged it…so now it seems they’ve changed tactic and say that he vomited.

Sadly I’ve experienced it too. It was whenever there was a particular member of staff in the room. I think he just wanted to go home early and once he worked out I was one of the ones always contactable and would come home without fuss, I was an easy target! He ‘left’ the nursery very suddenly and without any communication to parents. Miraculously the repeated temperatures my child was suffering from also stopped.

Yes, I had this with my nursery, but more so when my DD was younger (1-2 year old), and she was more of a handful.

I get the "she's not her usual self", and she has a temperature.

But the moment I got her home, oh, no temperature, and she just needed a nap.

I believe my DD was sent home multiple times because she was more difficult to settle. I did challenge, but they don't give a shit and just email you the policy.

I feel for you! might be worth changing nurseries.

You need to make yourself less immediately available. They have come to bank on you as someone who can come and pick up quickly.

That’s actually a really good point. I WFH and live next door, so I always collect within 15 minutes of them calling.

We had this when they knew i was on maternity leave. Absolutely infuriating.

The thing is that you have to trust the people who are looking after your precious child.

If you don't think they are honest then you cannot trust them and you need to find a different childcare solution

How old is he?

You are going to have to invent some client visits, bank/hospital appointments, or very important Teams meetings! 😄

Honestly if it's got to the point where you don't trust your childcare, I would look at other options.

I work in a nursery and if a child has a temp we get permission to give medicine if it comes down they can stay if not then need to b collected 48hr exclusion is only for vomit or 3 loose nappies but we treat cases differently some child might vomit due to coughing which wouldn’t b sent home but there is some children who r constantly catching something and once theres a bug in the room everyone gets it but if ur child’s being sent home constantly having no symptoms after i would b questioning it

What's the logic with just reducing the symptoms, the child is still ill with an infection?
No wonder the children are constantly catching something if you let kids with infections stay at nursery...

Well it could b a viral that isn’t contagious hence if the temperature lying laying dosnt come down within 30mins of paracetamol there to get collected or have other symptoms with it theyve to b collected if they become a 1-1 aswell

Viruses are contagious 🤔A temperature means an infection.

It could be staffing, do you know they are short staffed? Sounds like your an easy target if you're WFH and only next door.
Is your ds in anyway clingy/excitable/spirited/a pain in the arse, as this is another reason they might be keen to send him home.

Or teething or something, not always contagious

I should have said a fever means an infection. Teething does not cause a fever.

Not all them kidney infection a uti not contagious there are a lot of things that are not exclusions u would be surprised of how many things arnt but if parents didn’t send them in knowing that they were sick which u would b surprised that do because they can’t take time off work