Sunburnt at nursery

[MiniMummy576]

Yesterday my 1 year old son got sunburnt whilst at nursery. I sent him with a hat and 50+ sunblock. They only put sunblock on his face so he got burnt on his arms, legs and the little exposed swirl on top of his head. Communication isn't the greatest with the different ladies that work in the 'baby room' - we've had incidents like they didn't know what our password was but let DS be taken out just by his birthday and I had to repeatedly tell them for about 3 weeks that they were doing his nappies wrong and giving him nappy rash (long story). Whilst I understand that accidents happen, it's pretty clear that they didn't even attempt to protect him properly. I'll have a word with the ladies when I take him back but, given how long it took for the message to get through about the nappy rash, I don't want him to be repeatedly burnt while the message filters through. I once got second degree burns on my arms because a teacher held a lesson outside, so I'm a little paranoid about the sun.
ABIU to have a word with the manager? Or am I being a bit melodramatic?

Yeah they are lying to you.

With that level of neglect, responsibility dodging and lies you'd be crazy to leave your dc there again.

Even if they are the only nursery in 200 miles.

Ideally it should be reapplied but how exactly is a teacher meant to have time to apply sunblock thoroughly to 30+ kids? And getting 4 yo's to do it themselves is a waste of time. Half a bottle on random bits of the legs and nothing anywhere else ime.

TheRealPooTroll OP's child is one years's old so that staff:child ratio will not be 30:1.

To be fair I have got sunburnt at that time of day, esp with the temps 25+ degrees still (I'm in the south east) but have been in it for more than 10mins so somethings not quite right there! Also why is this trainee allowed to make such decisions without someone overseeing her? X

Roomster101 I was referring to the poster who said teachers should be applying it to reception kids or have them do it themselves.
It should certainly be possible to do in nursery. I would still send my child in with cream on on a day like today though

In response to therealpootroll I see your point and don't think a reception teacher could apply all the children's cream. My son was expected to apply his own in reception and didn't do too bad a job. Could the teacher/TA not just oversee this? I believe they would help children with SEN. Surely some cream is better than none anyway.

Before reception of course staff should apply. Ratios are lower than this and if it takes time that's just tough really.

This thread has made me think I might try and do some training for my daughter to make sure she can apply her own before she starts reception next year.

I used to apply, but also dressed dd in long sleeves and leggings. Nursery reapplied.
Dd did get slight reddening, in april in the park after school on her neck. So probably 4-5pm maybe.
I dress her in trousers so no need to apply to legs and i would out of choice do long sleeved top but of course uniform is a polo.
They do not apply at school. But she has a school cap with neck cover.
Its hard suntan lotion can be washed off especially on hands but also only covering part of the body can also backfire if they the need to change for any reason.

Is it normal for a trainee to have full responsibility of babies? And also to ensure they have adequate sunscreen on. It isn't good enough to say 'oh she didn't know'. That is what the experienced staff are there for and why she shouldn't have been left to do it herself! They have let the trainee down as well as your son!

AndNowItIsSeven - I mean the little exposed bit of scalp where the hair swirls out from on the top/back of the head... I probably haven't explained that very well
Lostmysignal I don't know if it's normal, but I'm certainly not happy about it! I imagine that because it was the end of the day and there's usually only DS and a couple of the older babies left they thought it would be okay, but I'm paying for trained professionals to look after DS, not someone unqualified

I'm calling bullshit on the whole thing tbh. I spoke to DH on the way home and he doesn't believe a word of it either. I can see that they're covering their arses and I know that it's a lie. There's no way DS would have burnt within 10 minutes in the evening. I think it was probably more like 30-40 minutes. I think we've been unlucky - everyone else seems to have a positive experience and the Ofsted scores are really good, but we've decided we're going to look for somewhere else for him.

One of the most important things is trust and they have really done an awful lot to get that from you. I don't blame you at all. I hope you find somewhere better.

I think their answer makes things worse.

Not only do they have trainee staff making decisions they are clearly unqualified to do, but they have trainee staff who are unaware of their policies in sole charge of children.

Who supervises the trainees? Why are staff who are not familiar with policies making decisions? Who else was with your child and the trainee member of staff - surely your child was not alone with an unqualified trainee? So if they weren't alone then what was the supervisor doing? If they were alone then does that comply with nursery policy? Do they have any qualified or experienced staff at the end of the session or just the trainee? What was the ratio when this happened?

Coupled with the password issue I'd be moving my child - their staff are either incompetent, unqualified, poorly supervised or a bad mixture of all three.