Bad news spreads fast and nothing spreads faster in the childcare sector than the news that an infection has caused serious illness in children at a nursery. This was evident during the recent outbreaks of the deadly E.coli 0157 bug.
Television footage of early years inspectors and medical officials entering a setting or contract cleaners leaving with bags of waste, can shake parents' confidence, even when the bug has originated from outside the premises and the staff have made great efforts to limit its spread.
'Parents want to know that infection control is taken seriously,' says Laura Henry of Childcare Consultancy. 'They want to know t their children are being looked after properly. If an infection does spread through a nursery inevitably it is bad for the reputation of that setting.
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