The Centre is not able to care for children who are ill. The following policy has been developed to protect your child and the other children attending the Centre.
Emergency Contacts
It is important that the Director or the child’s caregiver be notified if your child has been unwell or received an injury since last attending the Centre.
In the case of your child becoming ill at the Centre, every effort will be made to contact you to ask you to take the child home. If it is seen that your child has a temperature you will be contacted and you may be asked for permission to give the child paracetamol.
Later you will be asked to confirm this permission in writing. The Director has the prerogative to call an ambulance or doctor if urgent medical attention is required. Every effort will be made to contact you or your nominated emergency contact people as soon as possible. All medical and ambulance costs are the parent's responsibility.
Parents should note that children entering a group care environment for the first time have a tendency to pick up any bugs that may be going around. The reason for this is not poor standards of hygiene etc but is due the fact that the child has not been exposed to bugs before and therefore has no immunity.