A dbs check should have been done ?

[TheWanderingWonderer]

Aibu?
Nursery setting and a parent had to stay with their child for approx 4 months each morning and then to go in each time to administer medication.
Surely given that it was a prolonged thing that they knew about the parent needed a dbs check. Was just in the room but took the child to the toilet etc when others in there and wasn’t always supervised
Should they have done a check (if it’s relevant there is a caution for violence/assault)

If they are left unsupervised with other children then yes they should.

Do you know whether or not there was a check?

There definitely wasn’t a dbs check done

Most of the time another member of staff was present. On a handful of occasions unsupervised but only for a few minutes no more

But even so supervised or not surely an adult there each day should have been subject to a dbs check

Yep - I’d say it should have been done or they should not be left alone. Just good practise.

If they were unsupervised then yes there should have been.
Are you sure they were with other children unsupervised? That basically means the nursery staff left the children 'alone' at certain points.

Literally for a few mins if for example they changed over who was in the garden or similar

But even so supervised or not surely an adult there each day should have been subject to a dbs check

Then each parent would need to be dbs checked. Settling in, chatting to staff, parents meetings. There's parents in nursery's quite a lot.

What do you mean there is a caution for violence/assault? On who?

This was a parent who was there pre arranged daily for the WHOLE session for months. Surely a check should have been done when it was arranged

I don’t know any more than it was a caution for common assault against another adult

Yabu parents spend so much time in nurseries and schools it would be ridiculous to dbs every one

This was prearranged though (because the child suddenly became unwell and needed medication and staff weren’t trained). I would have thought as part of the process a dbs should have been done as they weren’t just a ‘parent’ at that point but volunteering really ?

A DBS check only shows what you have been caught doing .....

No, the parent would not need a DBS check.

www.gov.uk/government/collections/dbs-eligibility-guidance

What is your issue here OP?

they weren’t just a ‘parent’ at that point but volunteering really ?

You're not a volunteer if you're only looking after your own child.

Was just concerned the nursery hadn’t done something they should have

Ok I just wondered as it was every day if they should have been checked as weren’t supervised 100% of the time

If they had unsupervised access to other children then yes they should.

Only a very minimal amount from what I saw....but still. I just thought should they have done one but it seems not

How do you know they had unsupervised access? Having spent most days in a nursery settling my son there’s always lots of staff about and the children were never, ever on their own, even for a minute

Are you saying they regularly were left unsupervised with other children? In which case yes of course they should have had a dbs. Or was it unsupervised access to their own child. In which case -

A caution not a conviction? This is obviously someone you don't like ??

I actually think Ofsted would say that someone who was there every session for 4 months should have been DBS checked even if supervised and a parent.