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You can view our medicine policy on our Policies & Procedures page. If your child is to be given prescription medication, we’d give these in line with the prescription. Over the counter temperature relief will be given if they develop a temperature – only with your prior consent. Anti-histamines will also be kept at the nursery and can be used when needed and/or approved by families.

This depends on the child and their symptoms – if a child has a cold but is happy in themselves, it’s ok for them to stay at nursery. However, if the nursery team thinks the symptoms are or could be contagious, then the child will need to be picked up. Refer to our illness policy which you can find on our Policies and Procedures page. If your child has had vomiting or diarrhoea, please do not let them return to nursery until 48 hours from their last bout. All exclusion periods are in line with UKHSA guidance on infectious diseases. 

We don’t exclude non-vaccinated children from our nursery, in line with government guidance.

If your child is unwell and needs to rest at home, we are unable to provide containers of the food cooked at the nursery - we cannot guarantee that the food is suitable to eat once it has left the nursery. However, if you would like to take some fresh fruit home when you collect your child, this can be accommodated.

We require a family’s permission to administer anti-histamines to relieve any allergic symptoms. Following this, we use colour-coded allergy bowls for your child’s food, and all allergy information would be on the walls of nursery rooms so that our team is fully aware. If your child has a severe allergy, please let us know as soon as possible so we can make an action plan with your Key Person, senior management and the nursery kitchen.

We keep anti-histamines and temperature relief at the nursery, but would never administer prescription medication unless it was assigned to a particular child and was in its original packaging. We do not keep spare EpiPens at our nurseries.

Safety is our first priority for all children, families and team members. Our nurseries all have entry controlled systems. Alongside this, all nursery rooms have the ability to secure their entrance door should there be a need to instigate lockdown. We engage with specialist contractors to provide all our health and safety requirements that the nursery environment needs.