To have a word with the nursery staff?

[ohdeear]

Hi all

My DD (3yo) has been attending nursery for 2 years now.

We've never had any issues. However the staff has changed and for 3 months or so .. every single day there's an incident.

I have to sign accident forms on a daily. In the last few months She came home with cut chin/ bruises etc etc. She's either hurt herself/ or on a different occasion the practitioner dropped her off the changing table / been pushed by other DC of a table? etc etc.

Whilst I do understand that accidents happen. I'm a little disappointed that WITHOUT exaggeration it's a daily thing.
When I go in to pick her up all the new staff (18-20 yo) are sat in a group chatting and the kids seems to run around doing what they like. (Standing up on tables etc)

I'm usually pretty relaxed But I Would love to have a word and get understanding of how she's being looked after .. and what can be done to stop some of these incidents.
DH thinks it's pointless and we shouldn't upset them as we're leaving our DD in their hands for a few hours.

AIBU to want to have a polite word?
As I said I totally understand that accidents happen but it's every day (I promise I'm not exaggerating) today she's got a bruise on her forehead from falling off a bike as she was standing up on it 😩 why was she standing on a bike in the first place... I'm sure it wasn't a matter of seconds as judging by how they all sit in a group chatting at all times .. I'm expecting nobody noticed

(Sorry for the spelling mistakes- writing this as I'm trying to get my newborn to sleep)

No way should they be chatting. They should be supervising these unpredictable tiny children!!! Accidents happen in a second!

Does the nursery have cctv? I know of a 2yo who came home from nursery with a bite mark that wasn't noticed until bath time at home that evening. Nursery were notified and they seemed horrified that they hadn't noticed it / seen the incident, but said they had a general idea of what areas the child had frequented throughout the day and that they would review all the cctv footage to see which child did it so that they could keep an eye on them etc.

I don't know a lot about nurseries yet, so not sure if it's pretty standard practice to have them up... if yours does I would be inclined to request to see the video footage of todays incident and any further ones given the high number of occurrences! It would be interesting to see what the staff were up to in these moments...

They dropped her of the changing mat😳😳I would have gone mad! The standing chatting would annoy me to. Obv you don't begrudge the staff chatting but not at the expense of the children's safety. I would have a word with the nursery. Ask for a meeting to discuss the incidents. Ask them to pull up her accident file and raise it as a safeguarding concern if needs be. Definitely don't just not say anything because you have to leave your daughter with them. Worse case you can change nurseries.

i would be contacting ofsted, same thing happened in my local nursery but unfortunately nothing was reported and a 2 year old ended up dieing due to negligence

Move your child. My child's key worker has never ever been caught sat and chatting. Totally unacceptable. Focus should be completely on the children.

You left this for 3 months? Ridiculous. I can't believe you haven't done anything sooner, and your reaction is to 'have a word'. ??

We have a handful of children who's parents want phoned if their child trips up, bumps into another child, cries if they have hurt themselves etc. They want phoned and a paperwork trail if their child hurts themselves regardless if there is a mark or whether the child was upset . We do have a child who has a form at least twice a week due to this. Could range from falling over and grazing their hand or falling but no mark to tripping up and biting their lip. Accident form everytime.