Hygiene in UK Nurseries: The Need for Continuous Sanitisation
UK health guidance warns that early-years settings pose “additional cleaning challenges”: young children have poor hand and respiratory hygiene and frequently touch shared toys and surfaces (UKHSA, 2020). Studies confirm nurseries harbour many microbes. For example, one trial in Danish nurseries found respiratory viruses (adenovirus, rhinovirus, RSV) on toys in most cases, even though pathogenic […]