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Guidance: Health protection in children and young people settings, including education – Last Updated 23 May 2024
This guidance has been updated to provide a practical guide for staff in children and young people settings, including education, those working in children and young people’s social care and across the secure estate, on managing a range of infections, and minimising disruption.
Within the tools and resources, there is an exclusion table with guidance to indicate the time period an individual should not attend a setting to reduce the risk of transmission during the infectious stage.
While this guidance may be of use to all children and young people 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 updated in May 2023.
This guidance is not intended to be used as a tool for the diagnosis of infections. The information is designed for use by staff members in children and young people settings (for example teachers, managers, teaching assistants, and cleaners) to prevent and respond to infection, incidents and outbreaks.
Guidance
- What infections are, how they are transmitted and those at higher risk of infection
- Preventing and controlling infections
- Supporting immunisation programmes
- Managing outbreaks and incidents
- Managing specific infectious diseases: A to Z
- Specific settings and populations: additional health protection considerations
Children and young people settings: tools and resources – (updated May 2024)
Learning resources: Prevention of infections in the school setting ebug
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) recommends educating children and young people on hygiene, germs (microbes), vaccination, and antibiotics.
A range of interactive lesson plans for ages 3 to 16 have been developed by UKHSA with teachers and are available for free at e-Bug.eu. These are designed to promote healthy behaviours among students and provide additional support and guidance to educators, to contribute to the prevention of infections in the school setting.
Page last updated on May 24th, 2024 at 11:54am
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