School didn’t call me about a broken bone

[Tigerbreadbum]

DS (8) fell at school this morning around 10am, witnessed by a teacher and TA. Was in a lot of pain, couldn’t wiggle fingers let alone write. They don’t contact me at all. We are in an and e and it’s broken and he may need surgery. I’m fuming he’s been in agony all day with no pain relief, and potentially made it worse.

what on earth do I say to school? I’m absolutely livid. He only started there in January due to physical violence from classmates at his old school. We were both so happy with the new school and now I’m fucking furious! Is there someone I should be informing, council maybe?

Leaving a child in pain and untreated all day is not an accident.

There is an argument for compensation, given that the child has required extensive surgery. The question is did the delay in treatment caused by school exacerbate the injury?

None of us know whether the injury will cause problems later in life - I had a bad dislocation of my knee after slipping on a wet floor in school 25 years ago that still causes me problems now.

I think in this case it's warranted, you've no idea if the arm is going to have lasting damage.

@Tigerbreadbum How did your meeting with the head go?

Activating an insurance claim to cover his medical costs/possible future physio is what insurance is for.

I totally understand the desire not to push for compensation, and depending on what the hospital said etc it might not be appropriate.

But the school is very likely to have accident insurance and if your son is going to need physio/other longer term intervention it is right to make sure he doesn't have to bear the cost of that.

Hope the meeting with the head on Friday went okay.

Ian not sure what you wuld e suing the school fr, unless you can somehow get evidence that a few hours seeking medical treatment somehow gave rise to a cost which otherwise wouldn’t have been incurred.

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/teaching-regulation-agency

Worth a look

Update

DS went back to school today for half the day, will see how he gets on.

school have done a report to someone, I can’t remember exactly but it involves RIDDOR. They are also putting on a first aid refresher for the staff and any accidents that are possible more than a scrape should be referred to SLT.

Overall it’s as good an outcome as possible in the circumstances I think, please do let me know if there is anything else I should be asking about though!

Ah that's great. RIDDOR means it'll get reported to a relevant enforcing authority (probably the local authority). Fractures are RIDDOR reportable so it sounds like they got their arse in gear.

RIDDOR is the Health and Safety Executive’s reporting process - I think it is a regulatory requirement https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/edis1.htm

Wonderful. Well done @Tigerbreadbum ..
Maybe this will help others in future

Well done @Tigerbreadbum Hope DS gets on ok back at school - and it does sound as if they have got a fright and got their arses procedures into top gear.

Ask the school for a full report of what happened, signed by those who witnessed the fall then send it with your complaint to Ofsted. Keep it factual, that you weren't informed at all of his injuries at the time of the accident & that your Son wasn't offered any medical assistance for the rest of the day even though he was showing signs of being in pain. Let them know the extend of your Sons injuries & that he required surgery. See what Ofsted say & take it from there

I suspect under gdpr they may redact names of those involved, even if the cooperate.

Witness names are to be recorded on the accident sheet & can be passed over to authorities on request on a need to know basis if an investigation is to be completed. Also the Witnesses are giving permission when signing the sheet to their details being shared if required.