COVID
There are simple things you can do to help us reduce the spread of infections (including flu & Covid-19). This will help us to keep everyone well in Miss B’s Nursery and also to protect those at higher risk. These include:
Practising good hygiene, such as washing your hands and following advice to
‘Catch it, Bin it, Kill it’
Consider wearing a face covering in crowded/enclosed/poorly ventilated spaces
Following guidance for people with symptoms of a respiratory infection, including COVID-19, or those with a positive COVID-19 test result.
Positive Test Result?
Children or young people (aged 18 or under) who test positive for COVID-19 should stay at home and avoid contact with other people for 3 days, if they are displaying symptoms. This starts from the day after they did the test.
Please, where possible, report absence, giving a clear reason so we can record accurately. Should you encounter any difficulties, please notify us via email.
Changes to measures and guidance for managing COVID-19 in education and childcare settings from Friday, 1 April 2022.
On Tuesday, 29 March 2022, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Sajid Javid, set out the next steps for living with COVID-19 in England from Friday, 1 April. The population now has much stronger protection against COVID-19 than at any other point in the pandemic. This means we can begin to manage the virus like other respiratory infections.
Free COVID-19 tests will continue to be available only for specific groups, including eligible patients and NHS staff, from Friday, 1 April 2022.
Updated Guidance
Adults with the symptoms of a respiratory infection, and who have a high temperature or feel unwell, should remain at home and avoid contact with other people until they feel well enough to resume normal activities and they no longer have a high temperature.
Children / young people who are unwell and have a high temperature should stay at home and avoid contact with other people. They can go back to school, college or childcare when they no longer have a high temperature, and they are well enough to attend.
IMPORTANT
Adults who take a positive COVID-19 test should stay at home and avoid contact with other people for 5 days, which is when they are most infectious. (For children and young people aged 18 and under, the advice will be 3 days).
As a setting we are still required to comply with health and safety law and put in place proportionate control measures. These will include continuation with temperature checks at the point of entry, hand sanitisation, requesting visitors wear masks in certain instances, use of PPE and regular cleaning.
In order to reduce the risks from COVID-19 so far as is reasonably practicable, we continue to regularly review our COVID-19 risk assessment as the circumstances in the setting, and public health advice, changes. This includes having active arrangements in place should cases suddenly increase.
The Main Symptoms of Coronavirus are
- High temperature: this means you feel hot to touch on your chest or back (you do not need to measure your temperature).
- New, continuous cough: this means coughing a lot for more than an hour, or 3 or more coughing episodes in 24 hours (if you usually have a cough, it may be worse than usual)
- Loss or change to your sense of smell or taste : this means you've noticed you cannot smell or taste anything, or things smell or taste different to normal.
Most people with coronavirus have at least 1 of these symptoms.
Remember to follow the guidelines we know can help stop Covid from spreading:
- Wash hands or use sanitiser and clean shared surfaces regularly
- Use face coverings if you can in busy, indoor spaces, shops and on public transport.
- Maintain social distancing and meet outside where possible
- Limit contact
Frequently Asked Questions
New guidance states that "if you have any of the main symptoms of COVID-19 or a positive test result, the public health advice is to stay at home and avoid contact with other people."
Adults and children who test positive are advised to stay at home and avoid contact with other people for at least 5 full days (3 full days if aged 18 or under).
Staff and children should attend their education settings as usual. This includes staff who have been in close contact within their household, if not showing any symptoms.
If your child has symptoms of Covid-19 or tests positive for Covid-19 and you try to send your child in, Miss B’s Nursery has the right to refuse entry on the grounds that we need to protect staff and other children.
Children and young people previously considered CEV (Clinically Extremely Vulnerable) should attend the setting and should follow the same COVID-19 guidance as the rest of the population.
Testing is no longer being required but this may change if we face a local outbreak.
Face coverings are no longer advised for pupils and staff. However, visitors may still be asked to wear a mask.
If the number of positive cases substantially increases in the setting/areas, an enhanced response might be directed by the Local Authority / Public Health with additional measures introduced without warning.
We continue to work hard to try to ensure we can remain open.
We are Open
We are open 48 weeks a year
(We are off two weeks in Christmas & two weeks at the end of summer).
Opening Hours
Open 08:00 – 18:00
(Weekend Closed)
