Advice please?
My baby is 6 month old and recently started nursery.
On his trial day I was told that they mix the babies with toddlers. As I was a little concerned about toddlers biting I was assured that he would be "watched like a hawk"
On his first full day we noticed he had been bitten. I received no incident report and when I questioned the staff that evening they said they had no idea how it had happened.
I can only assume that he wasn't being supervised properly and as far as I'm concerned to leave a 6 month old baby around a toddler unsupervised is neglect. I understand that children bite and in six months time it could be my baby that's doing the biting. My concern is what the staff were doing while this was happening and how it could of been a lot worse.
As you can see from the pic that is a deep bruise and I have no doubt that my baby would of cried. I took my baby to his GP the next morning and she confirmed it was a bite by an older child. I emailed the nursery a complaint and said I would like it investigated. They have wrote back to me today to say that there was a ratio of 1 staff to 3 children that day and my baby was never alone. They are claiming that the bruise looked faded in the pic so wasn't done at nursery.
My baby is not around other children. I only have another 17 year old. He has never mixed with any other babies. It's partly my reason for him starting nursery.
I feel heartbroken that this has happened and furious that they are trying the pass the blame on to me. Can anyone give some advice as to what do do? I have reported it to ofsted and if they had apologised and returned my money I would of probably left it but as they are trying to pass the book I want to take it further. Be good to get other mums opinions on this?
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user1485882993 · 15/09/2017 20:10
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