{"id":20224,"date":"2026-07-23T11:09:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T10:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/?p=20224"},"modified":"2026-07-23T11:09:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T10:09:46","slug":"updated-version-of-ukhsa-guidance-to-schools-and-early-years-settings-during-heat-episodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/updated-version-of-ukhsa-guidance-to-schools-and-early-years-settings-during-heat-episodes\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated version of UKHSA guidance to schools and early years settings during heat episodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following guidance advises those working with children on how to reduce the risks of hot weather to the health of people they provide care for: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/looking-after-children-and-those-in-early-years-settings-before-and-during-hot-weather-teachers-and-other-educational-professionals\" rel=\"noopener\">Looking after children and those in early years settings before and during hot weather: teachers and other educational professionals &#8211; GOV.UK<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Key changes:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>clarifies measures supporting school attendance during periods of hot weather (i.e. ways to manage the heat without the need for school closure)<\/li>\n<li>aligns with guidance specifying children under 5 are at higher risk during heat episodes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please send any queries to <a href=\"mailto:ExtremeEvents@ukhsa.gov.uk\">ExtremeEvents@ukhsa.gov.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This guidance advises those working with children on how to reduce the risks of hot weather to the health of people they provide care for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-30 15:57:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20226,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20224\/revisions\/20226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}