Have I followed the rules correctly?

[stressedsloth]

I received a call from my 3 year olds nursery on Monday morning to say he needs to self isolate as a key worker in his room had tested positive. I'd already been and dropped my 5 year old off at school. Nobody displayed symptoms until late Tuesday night when myself and husband came down with aches and pains.

My 5 year old has asthma and showed some signs he needed his inhaler.

We self isolated from Wednesday and all got tested with a home test kit.

If my 5 year old is positive I'm now second guessing if I was ok sending him in school even though none of us displayed any symptoms.

Everybody told me I was fine to send him in and the NHS doesn't state we all needed to self isolate unless symptoms show.

If you and DH had symptoms, your 5 yr old had to isolate at home till you all get a negative result. So no, they shouldn't be in school.

Assuming I've read all that right.

You were right. If a child is a close contact without symptoms only the isolate. Not the rest of the family.
If someone in the family has symptoms everybody isolates.

Reread and you mean on Monday going to school. No that was fine and correct. At that point only the little one needed to isolate.

You mean on the Tuesday?
He was the contact of a contact then.

Siblings of closed classes are expected at school usually, it's only if someone in the family shows symptoms they then isolate.

You were correct

Thanks. I thought I was right, I just feel really bad if they need to shut the class down.

Test and trace goes right back over two weeks where you have been and who you've been in contact with which makes me think the class is going to need to shut down even though he was in with symptoms.

I hate that it's possibly my kid that will have caused this.

I wish I'd kept him off.

I never told the school about my 3 year old having to self isolate either. I'm not sure if I'm in the wrong there either.

Arghhhhh!

*without symptoms!!

You've followed the rules correctly, I wouldn't think to tell the school if a household member was a contact- schools let children in if their siblings bubble has burst even within same school (this is all providing no symptoms of course).

I do understand what you mean about feeling bad, I felt awful when ds got it and I had to let everyone know but it's just one of those things.

You did the right thing. Monday only 3 year old had to isolate due to contact. Then from Tuesday evening and symptoms with family members, all have to isolate until you get test results. You wouldn’t have to tell school about your younger child isolating on the Monday, but presume they know now as child is off school.

The rules do allow others in the household to continue mixing. I wouldn’t have sent the older child in though as a three year old wouldn’t have been SD at nursery so was at risk of bringing it home and sharing.