How many breaks/fractures is "normal" for a 3 year old?

[MrsOverTheRoad]

I am a little concerned about someone I know in that their 3 year old has seemingly injured himself very often.

In the past 6 months he has fractured his arm, "broke his sternum" and had a fall in which he hurt his other arm quite badly but which the Mother didn't get checked out...she said she was worried about social services considering his other recent injuries.

The arm fracture occurred, she said when he was with his Grandparent...I spoke to the grandparent and they confirmed this. The sternum break when he ran into the corner of a table and the arm injury when he fell off a child's slide in their garden.

Is this a lot or pretty normal for an active boy?

The only reason I do have concerns is that when I have spent some time with him, he's shouted at me in a very adult way..."acted out" being agressive if you will.

Lots of "NO! YOU DON'T DO THAT!" etc in a loud shouty voice with finger wagging..again this could be normal but my DC never did it so I don't know.

But he otherwise seems happy and healthy...another person close to his Mother said that he worried that his Mum was agressive to him in the way she spoke to him.

Writing it all down it seems like an obvious "Tell someone" situation but it's hard to tell when you're closeish to the family.

Sorry, hit the post button by accident. Parent saw a note on GP screen when GP turned round, GP would not discuss but told her to call local SS.

Parents had been investigated after a nursery referral, completely unaware. They had records of hospital visit, consultant was aware too (ongoing medical condition).

So nursery, health visitor, consultant and GP were discussing but parents not told.

SS said case had been 'closed' two months earlier. It went to LGO and they got a full apology and goodwill contribution to legal fees.

A less feisty and determined family would not have got that far, SS attitude was unhelpful to say the least. It took 22 months to resolve.

I also referred someone and I know that they were unaware until several weeks later.

Ah...I see.
When I was referring to it not happening I meant it can't happen by law, for more than a very limited period of time (and I'm taking specifically about SS here, not police etc).

So perhaps it has happened on occasion in which case the service has acted illegally thus the compensation.

If the law was pushed to its absolute extreme limit (and this would be unethical) and it was a case where parental consent could be overridden due to the nature of the concerns...it would definitely become illegal if parents hadn't been informed of the investigations with 15 days.

Wow that's pretty shocking.
As above poster says, the compensation indicates they acted in a way they shouldn't have!

i have an absolute whirlwind hyperactive laxk of danger spotting nearly 3 year old and no breaks yet. more luck than anything