Nursery closure and close contacts

[Sandyjag]

Nursery closed and child has to isolate for a week. I feel she has already (as have many children) suffered lasting hard from endless isolations. She will miss all her acclimatisation stuff for moving to school. Am I able to ask for clarification on whether she was a close contact of the ill person. She even did a PCR on Friday as she has a very slight fever and was negative. We already had to iso for 2 entire days waiting for PCR results as they are now so slow. Feeling furious. We have followed all the rules. 60,000 at Wembley. I have had it with this.

You can try asking, especially if she was off. It's very frustrating to miss so much nursery, especially if you can't take her out.

Was she off Friday? If si she may not even have to isolate.

Unfortunately it’s kids who were in on Thursday who have to iso. Thank you for replying 😊

Just wondering what actual govt guidance is - whether it’s only close contacts who have to iso? Or the whole ‘bubble’ or down to schools discretion. Whole nursery are asked to isolate. All the teachers are double jabbed. My neighbour spent an entire 10 days with her double jabbed nanny with covid and never caught it. Sorry just furious at the whole thing. Thanks for understanding.

If they cannot say who the positive case was close to, then they have little choice but to assume everyone was.

Doesnt sound great - I'd have hoped they would at least have room bubbles.

You could be at the same preschool as my kids, apart from the fact this is probably happening all over the country.

My kids have to isolate this week. Then they are back for 2 days before the summer holidays

If you got the letter stating your child was to isolate then it counts as being notified by track and trace and is a legal requirement.

Our nursery has positive cases in the preschool rooms (2) and all the preschool staff and kids are isolating. In a nursery setting there is no social distancing or PPE so they all have to be off.

The other nursery rooms are open but they are split into 2 other bubbles (nursery has 6 rooms total in 3 bubbles as 2 rooms share staff for break cover etc).

I do agree that it seems unfair, but I think it’s all crazy at the moment. We shouldn’t be lifting restrictions as much, there’s still more to vaccinate first.

Thanks for clarification and context!

It doesn’t matter if you’ve stuck to the rules are not. Unfortunately we cannot control close contacts getting Covid.
It’s crap but you have it to do.

I run a childcare setting and when we've had a positive case (only 2 cases over the whole pandemic - touch wood) it's not been our decision who should isolate. In every case, we have to report to test and trace and they ask us questions and they tell us who should be isolating. Last time was hard to swallow - despite all our work keeping kids in bubbles, they made us send everyone home.

Heartofstrings sorry this is you, and thousands of others, too

My child has to isolate this week through spending an hour outside at nursery with a child who tested positive. He didn’t even play with her in that hour, he was just in the same playground. It’s ridiculous when you then see the crowds at Wembley and in all the fan zones.

I’ve followed all the rules to the letter since the start of the pandemic and I’ve taken it all so seriously but nursery kids isolating in these circumstances = sweeping leaves in a hurricane.

Thanks Kolo that’s helpful to know too, and sorry

My childs SN nursery has had to closed last Friday as positive covid case, so has to self isolate for week , it was her last week and moving to speical school in sept so no more nursery and we didnt get to say goodbye, also she missed family bbq and i did and havent seen family for year and half and she and i are missing her last day at q special needs playground who has been invaluable over the lockdown. And they do a cute little graduation ceremony 😟 missing it all, also she has Special needs so this week is going to be difficult, she has already been at home for 3 days last week due to getting younger daughter tested, thankfully that was negative. I can say when this is over i stuck to the rules the whole time.