Department of Health - Children must stay off 48hrs after sickness or diarheoa

[Tas1]

Found out today that the Department of Health now say all children must stay away for 48hrs after a bought of sickness or diarheoa. So I will be changing my sickness policy from 24hrs to 48hrs.

HTH

Many thanks for that - my ds school still uses 24hrs too! Parents won't be happy but hey-ho!

Difficult one. We would have difficulty enforcing 48 hours despite the governments best intentions as parents would be more worried about children missing the curriculum. Shame schools don;t enforce this with staff absence.

It was my DD primary school that sent the letter home.

I thought it had been the case for a while.

Some placs use a discrecenary 24hrs.

I too thought this had been the case for a while - its been in my policy for some time - HOWEVER - no parent yet has actually paid any attention to my sickness policy so whats the point anyway??!! (apart from to keep Ofsted happy!)

I have had 48 hour rule for some time, but our primary school and preschool have only recently caught up.

As its only guidance and not statutory though, settings are legally able to set their own exclusion periods. So some are still happy to stick with 24 hours, and some have gone up to 72 (!). Think thats ott though - imagine if you have 4 children and they are all ill one after the other - a lot of time off work!!