Schoolgirls spiked my daughter’s drink with laxatives.

@Halfordscarpark I understand why you might be hesitant - you don't want to rock the boat or be 'that' parent. You don't want your daughter to suffer further because the school staff might be upset with you talking to the police and hold it against her. I have felt that way too when there was a safeguarding incident involving my DS. In the end everyone benefitted because school policy was changed and new protocols were implemented. The biggest thing though was that my DS knew I had his back and that I stood up for him and advocated for him when he needed me most. Please don't hesitate further, what has happened in unacceptable. Pick up that phone and call the police.

Time to get back into the school op and demand answers.
How are they going to keep dd safe? How did under 18s get hold of stimulant laxatives (illegal to sell to under 18s)

I do wonder if the bullies are saying dd volunteered to take it to be part of their gang. No communication is totally inappropriate.

Follow process but do do something @Halfordscarpark. If this happened last week something should have been done by now. Tell police, tell school you have told police. Look up safeguarding, behaviour and complaints policies on school website. Ask school how they have applied the first two policies. You follow the third policy.

I am disgusted by what I am reading. A strong overdose of laxatives could kill a 13 year old child. They would have had a manslaughter charge hanging over them. These little shits need the book throwing at them.
Is your daughter ok?

I would definitely report to police and then let the school know you did it. Revolting behaviour on the part of the kids, but also shocking on the part of the school to not do much about it.

This is a safeguarding issue. The police do need to be informed. Your job here IS to create a scene. This needs the strongest of responses. Get your people pleasing hat off and your tiger mum hat and big girl pants on and fight your ass off to get the school to act. These girls should have been out straight away and the police involved. The school are not protecting her. You need to.

Please ring the police.

Don't let anyone tell you its an overreaction in any way. It's not.

It's unimaginable to think how the bullies' behaviour will escalate further if they aren't stopped after this.

OP the reason why the school is dragging this out is because it's not been reported to the police.

Do it, I'm pretty sure you'll get a response then.

Personally I’d go to the police, what if your daughter was allergic to them?! So so dangerous. The school should have suspended them straight away at the very least. To protect your daughter please please call the police. If this was done to her outside school you wouldn’t hesitate, children seem to think rules and laws don’t apply at school.

Reminds me of American Pie where they do this to the kid they call "Shit break"
Edit to add in RL though I hope you're taking advice of people on here

Honestly, I would be inclined to call the police about this. It’s astonishing that the school haven’t done anything about this. It’s not a prank. It’s really fucking serious.

I’m so sorry. This is so sad.

Please cause a MASSIVE scene. This needs to be dealt with and I’m sure this would be classed as a criminal offence so I agree with posters saying to contact the police. I’m so sorry your daughter had to go through that. I can’t believe the school hasn’t come down like a tonne of bricks on the pupils that did this - absolutely disgusting.

That's assault, a criminal offence.

Schools have community officers for this very thing. Use the service.

Have you reported to police yet?

That may be true but with respect laxatives aren’t legally able to be sold to persons under the age of 18 so they should not be able to have access to them. I’d argue that is neglect by the parents.

Police and also child protection at your local council

"Child protection" isn't a person or service you can just call up and complain to. It is a set of measures undertaken to protect children who are likely to suffer/already suffering significant harm due to serious abuse or neglect. Children do not become subject to Child Protection proceedings due to bullying/assaults at school. OP has every right to contact the Police but Children's Services will not be interested unless there is clear evidence that any of the children involved are not safe at home.

I think on occasions you do need to cause a scene and sadly this is one such occasion.

The school are going to try play this down and hope you go away, they have had time to act and they have not.

This is not the time to be worried about making a scene, you should be raising absolute hell!!! Stick up for your daughter, fight for her! CALL THE POLICE MUM!!!

You aren’t causing a scene. None of this would be happening if it wasn’t for their behaviour. It’s not your fault they did this to your daughter and they’ve left you no choice. These aren’t sweet innocent girls, it’s really fucked up.

If this is definately true - because it sounds fishy, but if true:

• police - actually bodily harm is a criminal offense and all involved need taking through the young offenders courts and a young offenders sentence.
• School need to look at firstly safeguarding your daughter, but probably excluding those involved to a more secure environment.
• The children's parents need investigating too because if a ten year old doesn't know that playing with medication is dangerous and isn't being prevented from having access to medication, they are at risk. Who knows next time they could try out something more dangerous or in a dangerous quantity?

Are u insane? You should muster of all your energy and cause the biggest scene. Schools pander to loudest parents who know the system, you don’t wait, you contact the police now. Write to the governors.

Please, please go the police OP. This is sickening. This is a massive safeguarding issue and I can not believe the school are failing to deal with it.

@Halfordscarpark nothing to do with causing a scene. You are showing your daughter what needs to be done when people break the law and cause harm. Your daughter needs to see you stand up for her and protect her.

And if you're worried about the girls that did this then maybe you're saving them from themselves. Maybe by receiving the full force of the law at this stage will prevent them for making bigger, more lethal mistakes in the future.

And you will be helping the school revisit their inadequate policies. Really, if you need to consider the school and the bullies, then you're still helping them. But your priority should be your daughter.