Primary School sickness policy

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This topic may have been covered many times before.
If it has, please can someone direct me to the appropriate threads please.

I dont have all the facts.
I just wanted to know is it usual that essentially, it seems that a school wants it's attendance record looking good, so a poorly child is still supposed to be sent into school.

Why is it wrong for the government and ofsted to want Dc in school? Most Dc are not ill very much. Certainly not for week after week or frequent odd days. Schools always know if a child has ongoing health issues and it’s reasonable to expect good attendance from the vast majority.

This is the NHS advice on illness and school attendance and has been shared with school leaders by the DfE - it covers most childhood illnesses...
www.nhs.uk/live-well/is-my-child-too-ill-for-school/

It’s nonsense you can be really unwell without a temperature or with one lower then. 38

For hfm children can be really unwell so sending them in might not be right

@handmademitlove Theres some illnesses missing. Measles for one. It does have cases occasionally. Otherwise it’s standard advice I think.

Thank you for that. Very helpful.

It is colds mainly, that are being passed around.
With the NHS advice, they are going to continue going around and around I would have thought.

Surprised about conjunctivitis.
Back in the day, I dont think pupils were sent in?

Interesting about a temperature.

@TizerorFizz Yes it is - but has been shared with heads in a bid to ensure that NHS and schools are on the same page regarding when to attend and when not to.. though not all schools seem to be paying attention!

You won’t stop colds going round! Parents go to work. Dc mix outside school. We mix in lots of places. We get colds. Unless the Dc has a high temperature, they carry on. As Dc we always went into school with a cold but not a high temperature.

It’s crazy.

I can’t believe that nobody in government is considering making the air in schools safer for children, as a means of improving attendance. Hardly rocket science given that we are in the middle (I hope!) of an airborne virus pandemic.

Countless studies shows covid wreaks havoc with our immune systems but our only strategy is to embrace sickness. And bully sick children and their families into schools. Utter and complete madness.

Attendance policy is utter bollocks. Give my child time off to watch football (which he doesn't even like) one minute and turn up on the doorstep demanding to see him when he's ill and on antibiotics the next because every minute counts? Yeah, jog on with that.