When your child attends school, they will get sick and you will be required to pick your child up from school as soon as possible and/or to keep your child home from school for specific periods of time.

If your child is absent from school due to disease or illness, please let us know what is afflicting your child when you notify us of the absence (ie. we require more than “sick” or “not well” or “not themselves,” for example). We are required report certain illnesses or outbreaks to Hamilton Public Health, and/or we may need to notify families in your child’s class, or school wide, of symptoms to look out for, so it is important that we keep track of diseases and illnesses.

Thank you for your cooperation. We know that having to take days off and missing work, or having to leave work to pick up a sick child, can be frustrating and difficult. Please be considerate of the other families and children at Lyonsgate and help us to prevent the spread of disease and illness.

CCEYA requires that children are observed at the beginning of each day “in order to detect symptoms of ill health as they enter the child care centre and before the children interact with other children.” At Lyonsgate, this occurs when your child is greeted by a Lyonsgate staff member each day.

If a child falls ill during the school day, CCEYA requires the following:

• The child is separated from other children and the symptoms of the illness noted in the child’s records.
• Where a child is separated from other children because of a suspected illness, the licensee shall ensure that:
  • a parent of the child takes the child home; or
  • where it is not possible for a parent of the child to take the child home or where it appears that the child requires immediate medical attention, the child is examined by a legally qualified medical practitioner or a nurse registered with the College of Nurses of Ontario.
• A summary of any incident affecting the health, safety or well-being of children and staff (e.g., accident reports, ill children, etc.), is recorded in the Lyonsgate Daily Written Record.

Lyonsgate Illness Exclusion Policies:

In addition to the information below, Lyonsgate requires that children are picked up from school and remain absent until free of symptoms, for 24 hours, of scarlet fever, elevated temperatures (fevers), vomiting, and rashes. Also, we require that in cases of hand, foot, and mouth disease children do not return to school until all rash blisters are dry and scabbed over.

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Hamilton Public Health Requirements:

Hamilton Public Health provides guidelines on when children must remain absent from school, and for how long, depending on their illness.