My son was injured at school

[BabaYaMorgan]

I wonder if someone would be kind enough to offer me some advice. My son had a fall at school last Wednesday and a note wasn't given to his mum explaining what had happened until Friday. She took him to A&E and it turns out he had a fracture and required his arm to be put in a cast. This feels like negligence on the schools part to me. We weren't informed that he had had a fall and he is an SEN child with and EHCP who is not always good at communicating things with us. We only knew about the fracture on Friday after school had finished and so tomorrow morning is my first opportunity to communicate with the school about this incident. Any advice about how I should handle this situation would be much appreciated.

Rob,

Ask to see the accident record book ( probably has another name by now, it was this in my teaching days) and wait while it’s brought out.
The incident should have been recorded. Then go from there. Question who checked your ds over, who was first aider on duty, what did they do and Why did they not inform parents.

What was their reason for not telling you until Friday?

But you didn’t notice an issue either? Sometimes a tiny fall that you don’t even think twice about can cause an injury unfortunately.

So dramatic!
children fall over at school all the time!
I doubt a majority of falls go unnoticed unless a child causes a scene
My daughter broke a bone in her thumb and had to have a MRI/CY scan as the bone doesn’t show on an X-ray and was still in pain and swollen 2 weeks later
No i didn’t even mention it to the school nor did I blame them, it’s a child and accidents happen

@BrendaSmall Dramatic? Nothing about the OPs post is dramatic but he is clearly concerned that his child with SEN who has an ECHP and therefore presumably may not be able to communicate an accident themselves had a fall. The school must have documented it in order to let the mother know, but did not do so for several days... I think I'd also be concerned about this

I'd follow PP advise in asking to see their documentation and take it from there

I hope your DC is ok

As a parent of a sen child you would naturally want to know if something occurred so you can check as you can't necessarily rely on them telling you they've got a problem like another child might.
This is also true if very young children and gradually as children get older we don't need to pay attention in the same way anymore.
Obviously accidents happen and it doesn't sound like you want to blame the school for the incident so much as quiet their communication.
Especially as you say it is a pattern of poor communication.
I agree with @Allthehorsesintheworld and would personally be considering if this is the right setting if their communication is really poor to the point of undermining the school-parent mutual cooperation.
At my kids school it's normal to get a slip of paper from the accident book, most of the time it doesn't matter, twice it's meant I've kept my eyes open for signs of concussion (which there was none, but at least I had the jabs over to know a watchful eye would be a good idea).

It's not unreasonable.

To clarify my main conerns. The incident was known about on the Wednesday but we wern't informed about it by the school until Friday. This was aparantly due to an oversight on the schools behalf. My son didn't communicate his issues, it was only after his mum started noticing he was struggling to straighten his arm that she took him to A&E. Me and his mum are seperated and I haven't seen him since the incident happened, so didn't have the opportunity to notice anything myself. We have had communication issues with the scool in the past and now that it's led to a more serious incident it has left me feeling frustrated and concerned.

Mention it to school, they will probably feel awful. However as previous posters have said , the children frequently fall and trip in the playground . We only record head bumps and larger injuries.
most children actually just jump up and carry on without even telling a staff member if they are busy playing

His mum didnt notice it herself though.

It is a massive failure of duty of care not to have informed the parents that there had been an incident at school.
Yes, accidents happen. Yes, sometimes it doesn't look like much is wrong. But that's not for the school, or indeed, the family to decide, but for medical professionals.
@BabaYaMorgan Pp has some good advice. There should be something written in the accident log, together with any medicating (even if that was something banal like "ran it under a cold tap" it has to be noted, to cover the school for such incidents as you've described.
The designated first aider should have been informed and made the decision on what to do, or not to do.
My school sent a child home in 2019 with what turned out to be a fractured ankle, and legal action against the school is still ongoing. And you know what? Quite rightly so.
We failed massively with that child.