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title: "Mild Illness and School Attendance"
url: "https://svf.org.uk/news/2023-09-11-mild-illness-and-school-attendance"
school: "Seaton Valley Federation"
---

# Mild Illness and School Attendance

  ![Image of Mild Illness and School Attendance ](https://files.schudio.com/seaton-valley-federation/images/news/attendance-apple(9).jpeg)  11 September 2023

The Chief Medical Officer and leading health professionals have written to schools to provide a clinical and public health perspective on mild illnesses and school attendance.

They have shared useful information via the link below to help parents and carers know when is it appropriate to send their children to school with a mild illness.

<https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/is-my-child-too-ill-for-school/>

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