Nursery incident. Ofsted?

[Felly67]

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?

I hope your DD is Ok, but honestly, get a grip.
It was an unfortunate and silly oversight, which hopefully the nursery will learn from and check all clothes more carefully in the future.

What do you think OFSTED will do?
You will just look silly and ruin your relationship with the nursery.

What do you hope OFSTED will do? Thoroughly search the setting for hatpins? Give them a good telling off? Downgrade their rating to inadequate and close them down?

Are you serious? You honestly think that EVERY child presenting to medical professional with a bruise, bump, cut, scratch etc gets a referral for a follow up visit?

Don’t be ridiculous.
HVs and SS hardly have time for children on their caseload who are seriously at risk.
This (rightly) wouldn’t even register unless it was part of a pattern of injury or suspected non-accidental.

No! For goodness sake...

Scenario 1

Parent and nursery have a productive conversation. Nursery apologises, checks all hats thoroughly and everyone moves on.

Scenario 2

Parent kicks off and contacts Ofsted. All dressing up clothes are removed just in case. All children lose out and staff lose a chunk of enthusiasm needed to spend weekends trawling charity shops for interesting things.

Stop

No

Of course not.

I just don’t think it occurred to them to check and risk assess a hat. I’m sure it will in future.

I can’t believe how many mean, sarcastic people there are on this site. Guys, you can give your advice and opinion without being so patronising. Being behind a screen doesn’t make it ok.

I would be really annoyed by the carelessness and would definitely raise it with management. But if this is a one-off incident and you have no other concerns, I wouldn’t contact ofsted, personally!

You're joking, surely? They missed a tiny hat pin. Come on.

So, the major part of the injury was that "she was upset" at getting pricked/poked.

You need to get a grip mate.
A toddler can get cut, scratched, poked or pricked by many a thing. A zip, a fork, a pencil, a pointy stick, a splinter or even their own razor sharp little finger nails. It doesn't half hurt, even as an adult, if a cracker crumb goes in your eye. Should the nursery ban food that makes sharp crumbs?

OFSTED is going to be really busy if you go there every time your child cries at a sharp sensation.

In response to a PP who asks, "what if the child swallowed the pin" .
A hat pin is four to six inches long. The toddler who can swallow that, is either very determined or has a future as a sword shallower.

No.

I was just thinking this. So many potentially dangerous things in a nursery…. scissors, planks of wood, Lego bricks. List is endless really …

No, accidents happen.

How did she manage to poke it in her eye?

I am sorry your child was injured but please give your head a wobble.
Most young people who work in nurseries now wouldn't have a clue what a hat pin was, let alone know to look for them.
Please don't waste offsteads time, ypu are going to have a bit of a wake up call when your child goes to school and you can't run to ofstead every time there is an incident.

Hurt her eye how? Has it impacted her vision? Actually damaged her eye? If so you would want compensation for her disability, otherwise not a big deal.

Contact your MP. And the press.

Sometimes o read these threads and it feels like I'm having an out of body experience because it is so removed from reality

What's your goal? To put the nursery in special measures and shut it down? Seems a reasonable response...

Pretty certain Ofsted are dealing with actual safeguarding issues this week. A concealed hatpin is regrettable but not really on the same level. Have the nursery apologised and learnt from the incident? Please move on.

My daughter had an accident in nursery, lost finger tip and nail. A boy was holding the door open and let the door go. Accidents do happen and nursery was completely apologetic.

They made a human error, apologized and will hopefully be more careful in future.
If you are worried that they are ‘careless’ then find a new nursery for your DD which you are happy with. I really don’t wish this to be rude, but I suspect that nursery won’t mind.

I would be much more concerned about them spreading lice by exchanging hats. My ds' nursery were doing this type of dress up and couldn't figure out why they kept having outbreaks of lice.