Start Here Guide: Health and Hygiene, and Preventing the Spread of Infections
- Lansdowne Children's Centre
- Jun 25
- 2 min read
Guidelines Regarding Absence Due to Illness
Lansdowne Children's Centre needs to provide a healthy setting. To help with this we ask that you please stay at home and away from the centre and staff when ill (based on Brant County Health Unit guidelines).
Lansdowne reserves the right to send clients home from scheduled services and programs if our staff believe that the client is too ill to join in activities.
Brant County Health Unit guidelines also apply when Lansdowne services are delivered in a client home or community-based venue. Please let Lansdowne staff know if you or anyone in your family/household is ill if a home visit is scheduled.
Keeping your hands clean is the best way of preventing the spread of germs.
Use the provided hand sanitizer upon entering the building. Please wash your hands after handling any type of soiled material or using the washroom.
Lansdowne staff are committed to sanitizing their hands prior to and after working with children and youth. Feel free to ask them if they have done so.
Therapy equipment and surfaces used are cleaned and maintained regularly to ensure everyone’s wellness and safety.
Children and other family members with the illnesses listed below should stay at home and away from Lansdowne as noted:
Chickenpox - until well enough to join in all activities and having no fever, whether or not there is a rash
Diarrhea ‐ no diarrhea for 24 hours
Fever ‐ no fever for 24 hours
Head lice ‐ until after the first treatment and no nits are in the hair
Impetigo ‐ until an antibiotic has been taken for at least 24 hours
Influenza (flu) ‐ until 5 to 7 days after onset of symptoms
Pink Eye, bacterial (conjunctivitis) ‐ until the antibiotic has been taken for at least 24 hours
Ringworm ‐ until treatment has started
Strep Throat ‐ until an antibiotic has been taken for 24 hours
Vomiting ‐ no vomiting for 24 hours
For more information on these and other illnesses please contact your family doctor, or TELEHEALTH Ontario by phone at 1‐866‐797‐0000. You can also consult the Brant County Health Unit online (www.bchu.org) or Health and Social Services Haldimand and Norfolk online (www.hnhu.org)
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