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Infection and Illness

Any Other Infection
Chicken Pox
Cold Sores
Conjunctivitis
Croup
Flu (Influenza)
Food Poisoning
Hand, Foot and Mouth
Headlice
Hepatitis A
Impetigo
Measles
Meningitis
MRSA
Mumps
Ringworm
Roseola
Rubella
Scabies
Scarlet Fever
Shingles
Slapped Cheek (Fifth Disease)
Sickness and Diarrhoea
Threadworm
Tonsilitis
Tuberculosis
Warts and Verrucae
Whooping Cough
Minimum 48 hours after first treatment
Minimum 5 days / every spot must be crusted over
Until completely dry and scabbed (No weeping)
Minimum 24 hours after treatment has started
Minimum 3 days
Until fully recovered
Minimum 48 hours after last episode.
Minimum 5 days / all blisters must be scabbed
Minimum 24 hours after treatment
Until fully recovered
Minimum 48 hours after treatment/ once lesions have crusted over.
Minimum 4 days from onset of rash
Until fully recovered
Until fully recovered (No longer contagious)
Minimum 5 days after onset of swelling
Minimum 24 hours after treatment started
Minimum 5 days
Minimum 4 days from onset of rash
Minimum 48 hours after first treatment
Minimum 48 hours after treatment
Minimum 5 days / rash must not be weeping or if it cannot be covered
3 Days after the rash appears.
Minimum 48 hours after last episode of either
Minimum 24 hours after treatment
Minimum 48 hours after first treatment
Until fully recovered
No exclusion but must covered during sessions
48 hours after starting medication or 21 days after onset of illness
Stay home for
48 hours
after last
episode of
sickness or
diarrhoea.
Stay home for
48 hours
after first
treatment of
any antibiotics or
new medication.
If your
child develops
a temperature,
they must stay
home for 24 hours once the temperature has subsided without the
use of medication.
Please ensure you have read our illness and infection policy linked above for information on COVID 19.