111 call and safeguarding

[Angellove2024]

I called 111 because my daughter drank half a cup of coffee. They said it'll go to safeguarding. The clinician said it will be of no harm drinking this amount of coffee to my daughter. 6. What will/is likely to happen re: safeguarding?

You’ll probably get a phone call just to check in, remind you that she shouldn’t drink coffee (which of course you know as called 111) and that’ll be it.

With no other issues in the home, if you even get a phone call I'd be amazed.

I imagine it is not the coffee that is a concern but rather that she drank half a cup of something you thought she shouldn't with out you being aware so could have drunk half a glass of wine. I don't think SS will even follow up unless it fits into a bigger picture of concerns raised.

If they do contact you, just be honest but I really wouldn't worry about it.

Absolutely nothing. I wouldn’t have even called 111 tbh. Just internally thought “for fucks sake” as bedtime would probably be ruined.

Why on earth did you ring 111 for that? No wonder the NHS is in such a mess.

your daughter is 6? Why would you even ring them about it?

Maybe next time you won't waste the time and resources of 111 on trivial crap. Half a cup of coffee.

Yes same here 😂😂

Yeah.. why did you bother with that? What could 111 do?

Why would you ring 111 about your 6 year old drinking half a cup of coffee? Are you normally so highly strung? It wont kill her its not bleach.

same, evening ruined

I'm going to get a kicking but I was drinking my mum's milky coffee at the age of 6 /7 and tea too as I prefered, and still do, hot drinks.

I doubt they'll do much, sounds like a genuine accident for which you were doing the right thing and seeking advice. They might check I'm with you.

Just wondering why they reported it though. Is there anything else that might alert them?
DD had an accident when she was little, resulting in an operation - no one in the hospital had ever heard of such an accident, but I was never questioned.

Is there more to it? Was she burnt? Do you call very often so they think it could be fabricated illness? I'm struggling to see the reason to waste social services time with a safeguarding referral.

I’m actually wondering if the safeguarding thing is even real, or if it was a grumpy call handler’s reaction to the call. If so, the call handler was in the wrong - it’s always better to educate people than to try and scare them.

If anyone from the safeguarding team does call, it might be to see if you are OK, but I doubt anything will happen, the resources are not there.