Guidance

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A practical guide for staff on managing cases of infectious diseases in education and childcare settings.

From:
UK Health Security Agency
Published
18 September 2017
Last updated
53 MayOctober 2022 — See all updates

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Attending face-to-face education or childcare is hugely important for children and young people’s health and their future.

This guidance provideshas been updated to provide a practical guide for staff in education and childcare settings, including those working in children and young people’s social care and across the secure estate, on managing a range of infections, and minimising disruption. This includes advice on:on managing coronavirus (COVID-19) and other childhood infections. Further and higher education providers should also take note of this guidance. While this guidance may be of use to all education and childcare settings, it is recognised that there are some differences for residential children’s homes and secure settings, which means that aspects of this guidance may not be applicable. This guidance should be used alongside the emergency planning and response for education, childcare, and children’s social care settings published in April 2022.

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To provide feedback on this guidance, please send details to OpsPDU@ukhsa.gov.uk