Can anyone help with school hygiene issue?

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My 5 year old has just been issued with her 4th course of antibiotics since April for Strep A infection. She also suffered with the norovirus inbetween. I contacted the head last month to ask for proper soap to be dispensed in the toilets because all they had was a dried out, dirty, cracked bar of soap. (which dd wasn't using) She immediately went out and bought some liquid soap, which has now ran out. I don't want to make a fuss but I was reading about strep A and it stresses the importance of good handwashing! Do I go back to the head as I would like to see liquid soap dispensers a permanent fixture, or is it something I should be taking up with the governing body? Or am I just overreacting, can anyone offer advice?

Fish oil is very good for immunity, we have lemon fish oil from higher nature. I was slapping the stuff all over us in France, on trains, planes, everytime we ate

that's the hand cleaner not the fish oil ha ha

lol

Thanks for that, I will def. do some researching

Handwashing is most definitely checked in my classroom and in the other foundation and KS1 classes in the school. We have foam soap dispensers with lovely smelling 'Mr Soapy' soap that I often use because it smells so nice. School toilets and cloakrooms are areas of high anxiety for children and should be made as friendly and lovely as posible. Horrid bars of soap are not attractive and don't make children want to wash thier hands. Do the staff toilets have horrid scummy bars of soap? We also have murals, lovely shaped mirrors etc to make children want to spend time in there and not want to be out ASAP, so not wash hands IYSWIM.

alcohol hand rubs in the classroom have been proven to drastically reduce absenteeism due to sickness. here. loads of studies have shown it, I did an article on it a couple of years ago. In addition to, not instead of, hand washing.

I have a confession to make - my kids know they need to wash their hands after the toilet and I remind them if I know they've done a poo, but I'm not over vigilant. Neither of my 2, now aged 5 & 7 have ever had a single course of anti-biotics. You can draw your own conclusions. Mine is that a few germs are good for you.

We had a similar problem at our school two years ago and despite complaining to the head nothing was done. In the end I wrote to the chair of govenors to invite them to meet me in the cloakroom at 4pm one afternoon just as school finished to look at the state of the toilets etc. He came and within 24 hours there was an extra cleaner employed after lunch break to clean the toilets and soap dispensors were up on the wall.