vix84
25-05-2008, 05:03 PM
Im redoing all my policies and display folder so that it is to the EYFS and have used the Bromley site for help with forms etc.
From there I came accross the policy of mediaction - I appreciate that some children need non- prescription medicine on a regular basis, for example if they are teething. The Welfare Requirements stipulate that only prescription medication should be administered in a setting. I am however willing to consider giving your child non-prescribed medication, such as cough mixture, Calpol or nurofen, teething gel etc, but only if you have signed a parental permission form for me to do so and if the child really needs it. I do not wish to see a child suffer unnecessarily. I would ask that parents contact their GP and arrange for these medications to be given on prescription if possible.
So was going to incorporate the same to get around the giving of teething gel etc. but how do you word the permission form?
I give permission for my Childminder to give non-prescribed teething gel/calpol on the occasion where I have not managed to get prescribed medication.....?
Is anyone else going this? Or are you sticking strictly to only giving Calpol etc. if it is prescribed? And making sure you have a bottle prescribed by there doctor, as well as a permission form to administer the previously prescribed medicine incase you cannot contact the parents?
From there I came accross the policy of mediaction - I appreciate that some children need non- prescription medicine on a regular basis, for example if they are teething. The Welfare Requirements stipulate that only prescription medication should be administered in a setting. I am however willing to consider giving your child non-prescribed medication, such as cough mixture, Calpol or nurofen, teething gel etc, but only if you have signed a parental permission form for me to do so and if the child really needs it. I do not wish to see a child suffer unnecessarily. I would ask that parents contact their GP and arrange for these medications to be given on prescription if possible.
So was going to incorporate the same to get around the giving of teething gel etc. but how do you word the permission form?
I give permission for my Childminder to give non-prescribed teething gel/calpol on the occasion where I have not managed to get prescribed medication.....?
Is anyone else going this? Or are you sticking strictly to only giving Calpol etc. if it is prescribed? And making sure you have a bottle prescribed by there doctor, as well as a permission form to administer the previously prescribed medicine incase you cannot contact the parents?