should the school inform parents if there is a child with suspected scalett fever?

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sorry, i don't know anything about scarlett fever. a liitle boy in ds1's class was off all last week with suspected scarlett fever.(turned out to be tonsilitus) the mum told me today and was surprised the school hadn't said. as i said i know nothing about it so could be getting my knickers in a twist over nothing.

thanks pixie. i sort of figured that they would have said if they were obliged to. don't know why i doubted the school. i think maybe the mum's reaction to teh fact that i hadn't been told was what made me think they should have done.

Three weeks ago a a child in reception has scarlet fever, the school sent a letter out to all parents telling them there was a case at the school (without naming names just year group), they listed the symptoms and recommended children were kept home from school and taken to the GP is they showed any of them.
The child in question is my friends dd, she had called the school as soon as they knew what she had and asked them to make parents aware and that's just what they did.

Think you're overreacting. ds did attend a school which notified parents but that was not in UK and it was more common there. Scarlet fever is a complication of a strep throat infection (ie tonsillitis) and is rarely serious unless there are other health issues.

My ds had scarlet fever last year, obviously caught at school. It is a manifestation rather than a complication of strep throat, and strep throat can be around classrooms all winter. Doctors rarely see Scarlet fever nowadays and it took a long time for ds to be diagnosed correctly, so I told the school finally when term broke up, and as far as I know there were no other cases of it in his class, but there were probably lots of cases of strep throat.