Please use common sense when deciding whether or not your child is too ill to attend school.
Ask yourself:
- Is your child well enough to carry out the activities of the school day? If not, keep your child at home.
- Does your child have a condition that could be passed on to other children or school staff? If so, keep your child at home.
- If your child is sick at school, we will ask you or your emergency contact to take your child home. They should not return for 24 hours after the last episode of vomiting/diarrhoea
See below for HSE recommendations.
“Many infectious diseases are most transmissible as or just before symptoms develop. It is important therefore that pupils and staff who are ill when they come to school, or who develop symptoms during the school day, should be sent home. Whenever possible, ill pupils should be removed from the classroom while waiting to go home. Obvious symptoms of illness are diarrhoea, vomiting, fever, cough, sore throat and rash. For most illnesses, pupils and staff may return to school once they feel well enough to do so. In some instances however, it may be necessary to exclude pupils and staff from school for specified periods to prevent the spread of infection. Pupils and staff with gastrointestinal illness (i.e. diarrhoea and/ or vomiting) for example, are advised to stay at home until they are symptom free for at least 48 hours. In certain circumstances additional exclusions may be necessary, e.g. in a case of measles the local Department of Public Health may recommend temporary exclusion of unvaccinated siblings of a case or other unvaccinated pupils.”
Management of Infectious Diseases in Schools
October 2014
Head lice
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