Nursery went home and left dd!

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Posting here for traffic, I don't have an aibu.

Went to pick up dd from nursery this afternoon and found the whole place locked up and nobody there. After frantically calling, banging on doors, checking nobody else had picked her up we managed to contact the neighbouring school. The staff who were still there were amazing, helped us to get into the building where we found dd on the toilet, on her own, lights off and doors closed, staff gone home. It took us half an hour to get in so she was there at least that long. She was obviously very upset but is now home and fine and drinking lemonade as a treat while I try to stop shaking.

Obviously this is a huge safeguarding issue and there is no way she is going back. The head of the neighbouring school has been in touch and is organising a meeting for the morning.

Any advice on where to go from here, who to complain to? Should we get legal advice? I am so so angry!

I have no advice, but holy fuck, I would tear a strip off of the nursery manager tomorrow. That is awful!!

Never?!?! How on earth? Were you late in picking her up? How had they all gone home?

That is absolutely disgraceful.

Bloody hell!

You need to get straight onto Ofsted tomorrow. That is an epic safeguarding fail. What if you had assumed she was with a member of staff and wasted time trying to get hold of someone. That would probably have been my first assumption - not that she was in there on her own.

bloody hell! I would be going nuts! seek legal advice x hope dd is ok x

Wow how late were you that the place was locked up??

Tear a strip?

You are too kind Annie!

OP- so glad that dd is safe and sound, that is bloody outrageous.

I might be tempted to erm, ring the Mail or something myself If such a thing happened. How can that happen?

Ofsted would be very, very interested, as would the local education authority if it's one of theirs. That is truly shocking.

Ofsted. Straight away. This will trigger and inspection and they will look in to what happened thouroughly.

How old is she incidentally?

Um, have I got this right??? Your nursery packed up and went home and left your child ALONE in the building!!!!

I would go F@CKING mental! Police and everything! That is bang out of order and no way should that EVER happen.

Op, have a drink and a chill. Ring the police and lodge an official complain x x x

That is appalling. I would be beyond furious.

That's awful!

Definitely contact Ofsted

Bloody hell! How does that even happen?

And did you actually break in? Why didn't you call the police immediately? I think I would have called them the moment I realised my child was 'missing' and then again immediately when I discovered she was trapped in the building.

Erm no don't waste police time- it's a civil matter. Contact ofsted.

Holy CRAP!! How on earth did they not notice she was still there?? Do they not sign children out?

That's horrendous and your poor DD must have been terrified :(

How frightening for you all. Were you late? What would expect there to still be staff around tidying up and sorting out for tomorrow for at least 30 minutes or so.
At least that was the minimum expected when I did my training. I only did a term in a day nursery though.

WOW . The newspapers would love this one.

Ofsted and the Local Authority Designated Officer

Poor thing; she must have been terrified. Were you late collecting?

It sounds like you have the support of the head of the school - are the two linked or just near each other? Anyway she would be a very good person to help you take this further so I would stay in close contact.

That is awful. I would be contacting ofsted but I would also phone round anybody you know who has kids there. If my child went there I would really want to know as I would want to pull them out immediately.

That's awful. I'd be tempted to phone the police too, because the nursery might try and downplay it tomorrow.

Holy. Fuck.

Im never shocked at things, but this has made me almost sit here open mouthed.

Id be finding out where the staff lived and going round there to kick the shit out of them chat.