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Your Child’s Health

Your child’s health is one of our top priorities here at Stepping Stones. We
have great hygiene practices and a sickness policy outlining the procedures
for different sickness. If you want to find more information regarding this,
please ask one of the kaiako or look under policies on our website.

No one likes to impose a sick child onto anyone, we understand it can be
hard for working parents who may not spend much time with their children
before attending preschool. We ask parents to please keep the perspective
as to how they would feel if another family brought a child that had a
contagious illness to preschool and exposed their child. If your child has
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 whānau 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 under
two need to stay away from the centre for a minimum of 24 hours after
their vaccinations.

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.

Any child who is present at the centre that is unwell will be sent home.
This is recorded in our illness register. 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.