Safeguarding issue or not?

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Keeping details to a minimum for obvious reasons but if a child told you another child in their class had touched their bottom in the toilets in a joint reception/year one class would this be a safeguarding concern or is it just because they are so young??

I would tell the class teacher. No one should be touching anyone’s bottom in the toilets. It would be a safeguarding concern where I worked.

It is a safeguarding concern and I would let your child’s teacher know. It probably is just silliness at that age but anything like that needs to be reported just in case. It also means the teacher can talk to the child about the PANTs rule, boundaries etc.

Could be totally innocent, child curiosity.
Might not be true.
Might have happened but have reasons behind it which are really serious.

Not up to you to make that decision. Report what the child has said to the safe guarding lead at the school. They can look into it but there could also be other concerns all ready noted, regarding the other child and this could highlight the issue further.

Not uo to you to decide if it is a safeguarding issue or not. Your job is to report to the safeguarding lead the details of the incident as described to you and let them handle it.

It could be a problem or it could be innocent but that is for them to determine

Thanks everyone this is what I thought. I'm not in the school I'm a parent so will go in and speak to the teacher

More information required - ages of both, relationship of both, what exactly happened, context etc and what were the kids doing at the time. Could be, as others point out, totally innocent or a concern depending on all of this. Also, inappropriate touching may indicate that the child who did the touching has been exposed to some sort of abuse - this is unlikely but I think person responsible for safeguarding should be made aware and they can dig a little deeper.