Accidents, Illness and Medical Needs

If your child is taken ill or has an accident at pre-school, we will need to contact you as soon as possible. We keep a file with the appropriate information for each child. If your contact details change please let us know as soon as possible, this is particularly important if you change your place of work or telephone number. We also need an emergency contact person in case we can’t contact you. Please provide a minimum of two additional emergency contact numbers.  If parents or additional contacts cannot be reached, then a senior member of staff will take responsibility if medical attention is needed.

If your child has a specific medical condition that may require particular attention, then do please let us know. If your child suffers from a severe allergic reaction which requires the use of an Epipen, one is required to be in pre-school at all times.

The only medicine we administer is that prescribed by a doctor. If it is necessary to send medicine to pre-school, please send the original bottle. You will also need to fill in a Parents Permission to Administer Medicine form (this can be obtained from staff or downloaded from our downloads tab). If your child is off sick because he/she has been sick or has diarrhoea they must stay off school for 48 hours from the last bout of diarrhoea or vomiting.

Inhalers are kept in secure boxes in the classroom and given to the children when necessary. (Inhalers must be named)