Cough and fever- school issues.

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I have got a fever and a cough, my son also has been coughing and my daughter hasn't shown any sign of illness. I called their school to say that we will be self isolating and got an email about attendance.

14 days the recommend isolation time and the school is causing me hassle. What would you do in this situation?

Keep her off

The advice has now changed so that the whole household has to isolate so keep her off

Email them back and ask them if they'd rather the children came in. Schools have a special code to code this type of absence. It's not the normal 'I' for illness, or 'O' for 'other, authorised' but something else which I can't remember. Your children should be coded with the special code.

Self isolate. Schools have just received guidance on how to log this (absence in exceptional circumstances). They need to wind their neck in!

Things have probably not been updated as it was late in the day - whoever sent email may not gave been aware of change.

Household needs to isolate for 14 days

Is there a new link to family isolation guideline? I'm in similar dilemma and can't find that

It may not be updated on NHS site but search BBC news / Sky news and I suspect it will be there

He said the government was now advising entire households to self-isolate for 14 days if someone developed a fever or a persistent cough. On Thursday last week the advice was just that the person with the illness should stay at home for seven days. He said:

We need to ask you to ensure that if you or anyone in your household has one of those two symptoms, then you should stay at home for fourteen days.
That means that if possible you should not go out even to buy food or essentials, other than for exercise, and in that case at a safe distance from others.
If necessary, you should ask for help from others for your daily necessities.
And if that is not possible, then you should do what you can to limit your social contact when you leave the house to get supplies.

www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2020/mar/16/boris-johnson-press-conference-coronavirus-live-firms-could-soon-be-allowed-to-run-reduced-services-because-of-coronavirus-shapps-suggests-politics-live

From BBC

The press conference with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ended, and it's fair to say there's quite a lot to take in.

Here are the key points:

everyone in the UK is now being advised to avoid "non-essential" contact with others and "unnecessary" travelpeople are also being asked to work from home "where they possibly can", and avoid pubs, clubs, theatres and social venuespeople are now being advised to stay at home for 14 days if they, or anyone in their household, has either a high temperature or a "new and continuous cough"people in at-risk groups will be asked within days to be "largely shielded from social contact" for 12 weeksthe UK is to scale up coronavirus testing in the coming weeksfrom tomorrow, mass gatherings will no longer be provided with emergency workers

Thank you all. The school had tweeted about it as well so I'll keep them both off no problem.

Thank you everyone.