Guidance on scarlet fever: managing outbreaks in schools and nurseries

Guidelines to help health protection teams control outbreaks of scarlet fever in schools, nurseries and other childcare settings.

From:

UK Health Security Agency

Published

16 April 2014

Last updated

3 April 2023 — See all updates

Guidelines for the public health management of scarlet fever outbreaks in schools, nurseries and other childcare settings

Ref: GOV-13942PDF, 801 KB, 39 pages

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These guidelines were first developed by the national incident management team (IMT) in response to the upsurge in scarlet fever in April 2014 and subsequently updated by a subgroup of the IMT in 2016 and 2017 to reflect the changing epidemiology, evidence and feedback on implementation in practice.

Further information about scarlet fever is available on GOV.UK.

Earlier versions of this guidance were published by Public Health England (PHE).