Nursery sick policy

[SnugSheep]

This might be an AIBU, but I’m wondering what others’ nursery policies are regarding high temps?

Ours recently changed so that if kids reach a temp of 38, it’s immediate pick up. It used to be that they’d give Calpol and wait a hour to see if it came down and stayed down. Now my kids run hot and honestly, 38 is barely a temp, esp when it’s bloody boiling in that nursery room. Twice we’ve been called up an hour after drop off to collect this week and it’s only Wednesday! They’ve given Calpol and he’s been fine the rest of the day, eating fine, sleeping fine. He had a temp of 36.8 when I dropped him off this morning and I would never want him to be there if he was really sick (fever, D&V, anything horribly communicable), but this policy change means that a kid with a minor cold can’t be in childcare, which is basically every child, all winter. What the hell are working parents supposed to do?

I think you'll have to move nurseries. My cynical suspicion is that they are short staffed and this is an easy way to reduce numbers while keeping the money.

@Dablab youve nailed it. They’ve been pulled up by Ofsted about it more than once.

I would look to move as this isn't workable. Mine have been in settings where they give Calpol and let the kids rest the rest till ot works and ones where if a kid sat by the radiator they'd get sent home. The later kind made life miserable. It's odd too as schools are very reluctant for kids to be off except if they are genuinely quite ill. School pre-schools are good for that reason.

Ah big red flag then! A total hassle but will be worth moving x

Hi OP, a very similar thread here from earlier in the week that you might find useful https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/nurseries/5474827-nursery-keeps-ringing-parents-to-collect-our-daughter?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=app_share

Oh wow, thanks @minisago. It seems like this is a ‘thing.’ As if it’s not hard enough having to drop them off there in the first place because work is bloody necessary to keep the lights on for most of us. 🙁 It’s exhausting being a parent these days.