If something happens at school should carer know

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So if there happens to be an incident that happens at school (serious ish incident) should the teacher tell the nanny who collects the child? If not, why not?

Depends, if it's quite serious I'd have thought they'd have phoned a parent when it happened. And would expect whoever was collecting to be told.

Is it someone who regularly collects? Do school know this?

I guess partly it depends on the nature of the incident. If it is linked to safeguarding we'd normally only tell the parents/guardians where possible.

Other issues we'd pass on to the person collecting.

Anything serous we would normally have telephoned already.

Thanks. I'll expand some more when I have a few more views..

So incident was a young child getting involved in a bit of a scrap at school (nothing major but a few marks on child) parent of other child told on collecting. Nanny not told. Nanny finds out from other child's parent shortly after.

I am the nanny. I live Essex way. I was talking to my family member (teacher) about it who lives in another part of the country, who said they wouldn't tell the nanny either. But this family member is always putting my job down and making out that his job is higher than mine etc...

The mum of the child I look after was annoyed I hadn't been told either. I collect several times a week and am very known to the teacher. Mum wouldn't have seen teacher for 3 days.

Schools are only permitted to discuss issues with those listed on SIMS. So therefore I would expect the school to have phoned the parent unless they have listed you as the first point of contact.

Another thread on MN could be “why did school tell our nanny about an issue when she is not listed on SIMs and I have parental rights?”

Thanks for your input. What does SIM for? I am first point of contact for the days I collect on as I collect the same days each week.

And parents weren't informed. I asked mum when she got home if she'd heard from the school and nothing.. child had marks on them. We literally knew nothing expect for what the other parent told us.

SIMs is the schools information management system. You can’t be different priorities on different days. It’s listed as 1st point of contact, 2nd etc.

The parent should have been told - especially as the other one was.

Thanks for the info. I know it is different on different days because the mum asked for me to be contacted on my days as there were a few issues with school clubs getting cancelled and them ringing parents first and wasting time so now they ring me first.

My daughter has come home with injuries - not fighting, playing that went wrong - when she got a massive black eye they phoned me, but for 'lesser' injuries they have told the childminder. They usually don't name the other kid, but the children do! I'm not sure if it makes a difference that my kids injuries are due to boisterous playing not playfighting - my kids and the other kids have been very clear they were spinning around or whatever, and they are good friends, it was just an accident. I would be more upset if it were deliberate / malicious.