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been unwell at home, please keep them at home, remembering to inform
the centre as soon as possible. If the illness is contagious, or suspected to
be contagious, we may place a notice informing whanau of this occurrence.

If your child has been prescribed antibiotics, they need to remain at home
for 24 hours after the first dose allowing time for the medicine to start
working against infection and giving your child time to rest. When at
preschool we will ask you to sign the medicine register allowing us to give
your child the antibiotics. The medication needs to have your child’s name,
dose and date on it. If your child is requiring paracetamol for anything
more than teething or bruises for more than a 24 hour period, we ask you
to keep them at home as they could be fighting something off.

Please think about when you are booking immunisations, children over two
need to stay away from the centre for a minimum of 12 hours after their
vaccinations. Please try to book these so your child has time to recover
(maybe over the weekend).

Every child suffering from any ongoing allergy will have an action plan
completed. This gives us details of the allergy, symptoms and response
plan. Here you can give instructions for medicines to be given. This way
we do not need signed permission that day but is must be signed off on
collection of your child. Any child who is present at the centre that is
unwell will be sent home. This is recorded in our illness register and
depending on the illness a child may be in a separate area with a member
of staff until the parent arrives. Illness that warrants a child being sent
home or not brought into the centre include the following:

• High temperature – 38.0C or higher.
• Coloured, consistent discharge from nose or eyes.
• Unidentifiable spots or rash.
• Constant cough which is not linked to asthma.
• Diarrhoea and/or vomiting (stay away for 48 hours after last
episode).
• If the child does not seem themselves and are not participating in
the programme.

Please keep in mind our kaiako get to know your child well and will do a
thorough assessment along with other members of the teaching team
before making a call. Our best interests are for your child and other children
in our care. We all love our jobs and want to have your children here.