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SCDCS Information for Schools and Nurseries
Surrey Communicable Disease Control Service's has produced Guidance on Infection Control in Schools and Nurseries, which can be downloaded here.
Here are some other sources of information that may be of interest/use to schools and nurseries.
| Meningitis and meningococcal disease | |
| Head lice | |
| Exclusion of ill pupils | |
| Community infection control policy | |
| Feedback | |
| Information on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) |
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Meningitis and meningococcal disease
Information (from SCDCS) about the Meningococcal vaccination campaign.
Other sources of support, advice and information about meningitis and meningococcal disease.
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Head lice
I have posted information about head lice, including guidance for schools, here.
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Exclusion of ill pupils
Exclusion of ill pupils is poster "GUIDANCE on infection control in schools and nurseries", which is produced by the Department for Education and Employment (DfEE) and the Department of Health.
Copies can be obtained via NHS supplies new ordering system:
 | Write to NHS supplies, Department of Health, PO Box 777, London SE1 6XH |
| Telephone 0541 555 455 ("NHS Responseline" for members of the "NHS family" as Frank Dobson tweely says) |
| Fax 01623 724524 |
| or email doh@prologistics.co.uk. |
Exclusion of ill pupils is also supposed to be covered in the DfEE/DH schools web site www.wiredforhealth.gov.uk. It is, but is hard to find. If you have a question about a specific condition or disease, use the search tool, and type in the name of the disease.
We concur with this national advice with one or two minor caveats:
Children with diarrhoea and vomiting should be excluded until they have been back to normal for 48 hours (rather than the 24 hours in the national guidance).
Verrucas/ plantar warts. Verruca socks (for swimming) are not recommended by SCDCS.
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Community infection control policy
Many control of infection issues that relate to schools are covered in the community infection control policy, which can be downloaded from this web site.
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Links for children/schools
You might be interested to visit www.microbe.org. This site is designed for children and schools. It has information, and some safe and practical exercises - to demonstrate the importance of proper handwashing, for example.
Feedback
You can contact me via the WWW, or email me at peter_english@bigfoot.com.
If you want to send me confidential information electronically, please use encrypted mail. I use "pretty good privacy" (PGP) encrypted mail.
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Surrey Communicable Disease Control Service
Revised: April 25, 2003.