Nursery incident. Ofsted?

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My DD nursery has dress up women’s fancy hats and shoes from charity shops. Today she was injured by hat pin that was left inside one. It was a large pin that secured a decoration on the hat. Would you report this to ofsted?

No. Accidents happen.

It's a great idea to start off your child's educational journey by 'reporting to OFSTED' Also, log jt with 101.

Only sixteen more years to go.

It really does depend on the nursery’s reaction.
That could have caused a really nasty injury, and all those saying ‘give over’ etc wouldn’t be as blasé if their child had a serious eye injury, or had swallowed that pin.

Just because it wasn’t a bad injury this time isn’t an excuse to brush over it.

Don't go to Ofsted but do get reassurance that they have considered this within their risk assessments.

Bloody hell. Ofsted is a bit of a leap isn’t it?! Christ. If you want to report it to the management at the nursery, I’d even think that was excessive when it’s clearly an accident, but Jesus Christ you don’t need to go to ofsted over this. They wouldn’t give a crap.

Why is the first response to contact Ofsted? Wouldn’t the first thing you’d do, be to speak to the nursery, find out what exactly happened, what the nursery did in response to it, whether the child needed medical assistance.

Do you have confidence in the nursery in general? If not, I’d look to move to a different one.

In schools and nurseries all over, there will be accidents and mistakes. If it’s really serious, obviously you’d take it further, but Ofsted should not be the first thing you think of.

Why don't you start again OP and tell us what you said to the nursery staff and what they said in reply?

Forget OFSTED, you need 999 🙄

If your child had ‘accidentally’ swallowed the pin, would you have the same response?

This is not an OFSTED matter. It would have been helpful if you had included relevant information in your post though, such as what nursery have said about it and how your daughter is now, so people could advise if there are appropriate steps which have not been taken.

Why? What do you want to achieve?

As other have said not, unless their response has been inadequate.

🙄 don’t be so ridiculous. It was an accident.

I once bought some apples from Waitrose and one was going slightly brown.

I didn't bother with the manager, I went straight to King Charles as it was supplied by Duchy Home Farm.

That learned them.

Although this was last year and I'm still waiting to hear back from him 🤔

I feel so bad for them. Whoever went traipsing around charity shops looking for things children would love didn't think about pins and now has to worry about being shut down! This is human error after something very caring.

sure, call ofsted, your MP and the daily Mail so you can have a sad photo of you holding the hat pin.

mistakes happen.

Definitely not ofsted. Why would you?

FFS.
It would be easy enough to just go and tell them! Not even complain, just tell them in case they need to check for others. That's the "bigger picture" thing to do.
But if you really want to complain then at least follow their complaints procedure!
If you contact OFSTED then they'll ask you what the outcome of that is before even listening to you. Ridiculously out of line and ineffective anyway, like trying to phone the Prime Minister because your neighbours are being noisy.

Schools and nurseries are so sick of people hopping over their heads with complaints that then get bounced back to them.. It's an utter waste of OFSTED's time when their role is for far more serious monitoring purposes.
Because the world has gone nuts with this in the last three years, there are even proposed government guidelines coming in next year to protect schools and OFSTED from spurious complaints, not that Im saying your complaint isn't valid, but please do the correct (and grown up) thing and ask the nursery manager for their complaints procedure.

It was a mistake and an accident and I'm sure they will respond appropriately.

What did the nursery say when you spoke to them?

Look for the new alternative nursery where every child sits in a padded cell pod with an ipad so they can't get injured.

I once left a pin in ds' nativity costume. He survived and reminds me about it 12 years later

My dc was hospitalised for several days as a result of an incident at nursery. Ofsted were a waste of space. I haven't had any confidence in Ofsted's ability to assess and monitor safety in settings ever since. Just move your dc to another nursery if you don't think they take safety seriously.

If my child swallowed a hat pin, I'd be getting them assessed for stupidity, not arsing about with Ofsted.

No. It was an accident.

Plot twist: OP had a wardrobe clear out and the hat was actually one that she donated to the nursery

(edited to clarify: this post is for entertainment purposes only)

Why do people automatically say contact Ofsted. Most times Ofsted will bat back and ask whether you followed policy. So if you want to complain did you follow the Complaint's Policy?

Was your DD seriously hurt? Were you told about the injury? What did nursery do? Have they removed the pin and checked the rest of the clothes to ensure they don't have pins/other damaging items in. Have they put in controls so anything second hand is checked?