Children with colds taken on play dates...

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So Monday there was an organized private soft play arranged, you had to book for a set group of less than 20 children. Took my three and when we got there a little boy was coughing away, his mum said not to worry, they had done Covid test and it was negative.
Yesterday I pick up my three from first day of school and they are full of cold, sore throats, glassy eyes and lovely green snot. This morning they now look too rough for school but no fevers or coughs to justify Covid test.
Needless to say feeling really frustrated that it seems okay to take children who are clearly not well out for voluntary play dates! I get if you have work and they have school it's trickier to not send them, but for fun/voluntary things surely they should be kept home!?! Or AIBU because mine now miss the second day back and maybe tomorrow too...

Personally I think yanbu, must be different in the UK but here if your child has the slightest symptoms the parents will get a call quick smart to pick up their kid from childcare or school and probably get more than a few disapproving looks from staff when they arrive. People sending their kids in sick is the reason colds are so common in the first place.

Child showed up and was continually stopping playing to stand by his mother and cough away. You don't need to be that ill to get a test. School have said any child with sore throat, runny nose, cough etc., even if playing, happy, and negative covid test, can't go to school till completely well to reduce the number of people getting ill. My children are now feeling well enough for school but still coughing a little so will miss a 3rd day of the 4 days school has been open. To add to the fun they got me poorly so spent weekend laying on the sofa with a fever.
Test wasn't too bad although having to swap the back of a sick Childs throat with neither experience nor a tongue depressor was tricky, and taking the hour to go there and back as it sent us 30 minutes away was frustrating but now I know to just keep logging back in and looking for other options closer as there is a testing site in our town. Silly me trying to get tested ASAP as per gov advice.
As it would appear others will still take children out to play when ill I shall have to be a lot more restrictive and check before going out to meet, even at parks, so mine don't risk missing anymore school. Although I hope knowing that if your child gets a cold, and even non covid symptoms, they won't be allowed at our school people may be a bit more considerate.

Keeping children off school even if its proved to be not covid is ridiculous. Will this policy stay despite COVID?