When I was a registered child minder I had several different policies here, but I didn’t have a sickness policy. Looking back I wish that I had, obviously I told parents at the first interview here that I wasn’t allowed to look after any child who was unwell; because of the risk of spreading infections.

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To be honest most of the parents that I worked with were very good and didn’t send sick children to me.

But being a working parent can be difficult if your boss isn’t sympathetic towards you taking time off because your child is unwell and on the odd occasion a parent would send a child without mentioning that they were under the weather: As soon as I discovered that a child wasn’t well I would ring the parent and ask them to collect their offspring as soon as possible.

Even then I was sometimes told that the child was fine to stay because they would feel better soon. I then had to insist that the child was collected.

Then I had to tell a parent that their child would have to stay away from my setting for a few days or weeks ( depending on what the incubation period was for whatever was wrong with them)

: Again parents felt under pressure to get back to work and sometimes tried telling me that a doctor had said that they were well enough to return,.

What happens when it’s the child minder who is unwell I hear you ask? read about that here

Do you have a sick policy? Please share with me.

As always questions and comments are welcome.

Until next time,

Karen

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