Petition Number 10 to help prevent the spread of Norovirus in Schools

[Seany42]

I hope you will join me in a good(ish) cause.....

Millions of people fall to the awful Winter Vomiting Virus each year. Obviously we can't stop it, but it is possible to limit its spread around our children through good hand hygiene.

To my horror, I have discovered that many schools either have no soap or poorly maintained hand soaps. At a basic level decent anti-bacterial soap in school, with teachers ensuring our kids wash their hands before lunch, will make a significant difference.

My petition to the Prime Minister asks that schools be required to provide this basic level on cleanliness.

You can add your name in 1 minute to the petition at [URL="http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/StopSpreadingWVV/"]petitions.number10.gov.uk/StopSprea dingWVV/[/URL]

I did think about whether I should campaign for hand cleaners in classrooms, but this creates too many health and safety issues for schools to be simple and would require extra spend by our already stretched schools.

If you could then forward this to your friends and put it on your Facebook etc..., I would be very grateful. If I collect more than 200 signatures then the petition will be given to the Department for Children, Schools and Families for investigation and an official response.

Many thanks
Sean Massey

interesting, in all the schools I've worked in the children were always asking for nicer soap and WARM water to wash their hands with. It may be just the LEA I worked in but the hot water was turned off due to health and safety reasons. The soap was the white stuff that went manky with dark bits in it -dirt- that when I asked the cleaner to replace she said that she was only given a certain amount for the term.

The toilet paper was the papery stuff not conducive to wanting to wipe any delicate area and the toilets generally were an awful place to be which doesn't encourage anyone to be more hygenic surely?

goog point BB I would have children tell me they'd been sick that night but mum had to work which was difficult for all.
Also I did find the caretaker wiping my board with the floor mop so it's not just the children who need a bit of help...

agree. it is the 48hr rule that needs to be enforced. am sitting here feeling hunkydory but not at work because i spewed 3 times yesterday morning. cannot go back to work untill tomorrow afternoon. no idea how to advertise it/get people to follow it though.
alcohol gell on hands in the dining rooms may help and be quicker and need less staffing than real washing with soap.

I hire school premises and we often have to ytake our own soap

I found it...
here

I think the op has just copied it twice.

Also agree def the 48 hr rule, I wil be writing to dd's pre school tomorrow as the whole family came down with d&v after the pre- school party - one of the leaders was there and said her ds had been ill 12 hours prior "but was fine now" If she's not going to enforce it who else will

ps I was a nurse so this really gets up my nose

On the hand care front I have to say the pre-school are good, although as always there are areas for improvement.

Will do, but also agree with BelgianBun....I've heard parents dropping kids off at dd1's school (Reception) saying 'she was sick last night, but seems right as rain this morning' and the teacher just nods and says 'we'll keep an eye on him/her'.

And I've heard that from non-working parents, too, though they may well have other situations that make it hard for them to want to keep a child home. Still, both teachers have had vomiting bugs twice last term, and most of the kids/parents did too...thankfully, dd1 seems to be resistant to anything viral below chest-level, so far