Panadol: Yes, have heard of it, think it's stupid. The parents who are doing it for the wrong reasons (doping kid up so they can look well enough to pass muster at drop-off, despite being way too unwell to be more than a metre from their parents) are just going to lie anyway; they already do. The parents who use it within reason (teething at night) aren't the ones who send sick kids in anyway.

Nappy creams: Not a dr's script, but have worked places where they have to have a chemist label with child's name and instructions. I quite liekd this system; it costs you nothing more than the actual cream to get a label on the product. There can be no confusion or over dosage. It also stops you from getting little jars of homemade remedy or only labelled in other languages, which could be anything, potentially poisonous, or containing serious allergens.

I've worked in over 50 places over the years... everyone's got their own rules, and everyone thinks their own way is best. Except me I've seen so much now that I know there is no one "safe" or "best" set of rules. Things that the Queensland state regs claim to be major breaches don't even rate a mention in the Victorian regs, yet big things in Vic don't matter in NSW etc. Funnily enough, there's no significant difference in safety or rate of incidents between the states; so really, the minutiae don't matter.