Childminder's dog has bitten DD

Fur baby 🤮

Exactly this.
What breed is the dog?
What happened before the 'bite'?
Was it a bit or a nip?
Was there blood?
Is it the first time the dog has done this?

Many questions to ask before deciding to kill someone's business or fur baby

Unfortunately the CM should have ensured that this couldn't happen. I hope your DD is okay mentally and physically OP. That's a traumatic thing to occur.

Just because a childminder has a dog doesn’t mean the dog will be left alone with the children. Childminders are home from home settings, if they weren’t allowed pets such as dogs there would be far, far less childminders.

There's a difference between keeping them separate and leaving a child alone with a dog.

It can be hard enough to find a childminder without sifting out all the ones with pets! I've had three different childminders in the past. Two had a dog and the other had cats. First one was a wee yappy thing but it was kept away from the children. Second had cats which were in and around the children, but my kids were used to cats as we've always had them too. The 3rd had a big sweetheart of a thing, can't remember the breed, but it was around the children and they all loved him.

The last one was just DC3 and they were older. The lady was already minding DC when she got the dog as a puppy.

That suprises me

I would never leave a child alone with a dog. Even one I know and trust

as you just never know

I do think, if you choose a childminder with a dog, it's not reasonable to expect that the dog will be separate from the children all the time, that just won't happen in a family home.
Even with the childminder supervising a child could easily tread on the dog or fall over it and risk being nipped.

No, there's no particular rule on that, CMs just have to risk assess and obviously keep children safe.

A childminder near me was shut down when during her ofsted inspection the dog was growling and chewing the children's toys, jumping all over them.

A unfortunate accident which could easily been avoided, and was the childminder’s fault! You don’t need any information on the incident, whether the dog was provoked etc. It is enough to know that the child was able to get near the dog, which then bit her.

The dog shouldn’t have been in the communal room. End of. I thought cm dogs always had to be separate

How did she run into the room the dog was in ?

edited as was in communal room. Dog was in wrong room. Not child

I was just about to post exactly the same scenario.... it was an unfortunate accident.

Whatever the reason is, it doesn’t matter, the fact remains that a dog bit a child. It can never be trusted again . The childminder is to blame for having it on the premises .

Oh, the irony. You're making things up to suit the narrative in your head.

Re-read the part of the OP's post that I quoted above.

You obviously did read properly! The dog was put away in another room the mother was there and the child went into the room where the dog was🙄

How's the mother supposed to supervise her child or the dog while she is at work and the child is at the childminders?
The dog obviously wasn't away safely if it bit a child.

"there are no two sides where a child in this environment is bitten by a dog"

spot on!

This thread is as reactive as a maddened pit bull. It should be taken to a vet ASAP.

What makes you think that the mother was there?

"The bite was in defence, apparently she ran into the room he was in and scared him but she didn’t see it happen, she came back saying it had. It’s broken the skin underneath her eye."

Dogs aren’t stuffed toys! She went into the room where the dog was put away, her mother shouldn’t have let her, the childminder had her dog away safely and as the mother already said it was growling so why would you allow your child into the dogs place?

Of course it was on the CM to supervise and keep OP’s DD free from harm, OP is literally paying her to do so.

A 3 year old is impulsive and cannot be expected to be self regulating and self managing. They sometimes do unexpected things.

It’s natural DD might get bored and curious and for example want to see the dog or go into a different room.

The fact it wasn’t even witnessed says everything. I agree the CM should be reported and indeed should be reporting herself to Ofsted.

You don't know the full circumstances I'm sure the childminder is devastated enough etc
You don't have to ruin her life with putting it all over social media.
If she did not care less fair enough though I would not do this unless full circumstances known.