The following ‘quick guide’ was updated on 21st January 2021.

This guidance has been distilled from latest NHS, PHE and DoE advice

If anyone in your household has:

• A high temperature (around 37.8C or more) – you feel hot to touch on your chest or back
• A new, continuous cough – this means you've started coughing repeatedly
• A loss of, or change to, your sense of smell or taste

They should immediately self-isolate at home for at least 10 days from when their symptoms started.

• Do not go to a GP surgery, pharmacy or hospital.
• You should arrange to have a test to see if you have COVID-19 – go to testing to arrange.
• Consider alerting the people that you have had close contact within the last 48 hours to let them know you have symptoms of coronavirus COVID-19.
• Remember that very few cases have been reported in children.
• Read the Stay at Home Guidance published on the gov.uk website.

Treatment

• There is currently no specific treatment for coronavirus.
• Antibiotics do not help, as they do not work against viruses.
• Treatment aims to relieve the symptoms while your body fights the illness.
• You'll need to stay in isolation, away from other people, until you have recovered.

What you/we should do:

If a child has symptoms and is at home, then you should keep them at home and follow the advice above.

If a child shows symptoms at the Nursery, we will call the parent/carer to collect the child.  Parents should follow the advice above. The Nursery will carry out special cleaning (see Notes for Staff) and will continue to operate as normal (ie with heightened focus on prevention).

If any child tests positive for COVID-19 we will be contacted by the local PHE Health Protection Team and we will follow their advice/instructions.  It is probable that all ‘contacts’ will be asked to self-isolate at home for 14 days from date of last contact.

All the very latest news and guidance from the Nursery about COVID-19 is published on our NEWS pages (just click on the link below or wherever you see the link anywhere else on the website).

We have also published a pdf version of our ‘COVID-19 Risk Assessment’ on our ‘Useful Information’ page.