Child being attacked at nursery

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My child has been attacked by another child 4 times in 5 weeks at a private mainstream nursery, and the nursery have said all attacks have been unprovoked and random (ie when they have been napping or playing) . We have met the management in person and they created a safeguarding plan which included increased supervision but the attacks have continued. The child attacked my child and scratched their eyes yesterday. The other attacks have been pushing and more scratching. We have a meeting today again with nursery to discuss again. How can I ensure this won’t happen again? What can the nursery do? What can i say in the meeting?

Obviously the safe guarding isn’t working. Honestly I’d be looking for a new nursery as they’ve shown you he can’t be kept safe there.

To my way of thinking the nursery need to get rid of the child who is attacking your DC. That is appalling to hear about.

Focus on your child and what they are going to do to.keep them safe and
As they clearly are not doing enough to.safe guard at the moment.

That's up to the nursery
Right now the Op,s focus needs to be on her child and how the nursery can keep them safe.

I would be looking to move your child. It's not ideal but it's pretty awful to be randomly attacked. And it might make your child really fearful and that will take a long time to get over.

Thank you everyone!

The child who has been attacking my DC is suspected to have some SEN issues and the nursery has told me they're limited in what they can do—no 1:1 support, for instance. I'm really reluctant to move my child, as they’ve got friends there and used to really enjoy it. It feels like they’d be the one punished for being on the receiving end of the behaviour. That said, I’ll always put their safety first if it comes to that and will definitely remove of it doesn’t resolve.

ideally I just want both kids to continue at nursery in a safe way!

Regardless of the other child's SEN the nursery have a duty of care to all.children and they are clearly failing to do.that .

Sounds terrible for everyone but the nursery isn’t doing their job so you’ve going to have to move your child. They’ll soon settle somewhere else and will likely be happier without this threat

Go along and see what happens at the meeting.
Have an idea of what you want to ask before you go and keep in mind your DC is the one being hit, on more than one occasion.

You need to know that your DC is left in a safe environment and it's the job of the staff to make sure that happens.

You shouldn't be made to feel that your DC should leave especially when they aren't doing anything wrong.

Was waiting for the ot ok the other child has sent needs no real harm done comments but it not all of ds have to learn this is not ok why is your child safety not important as someone has special needs

These things happen when children are together. The nursery staff won’t like it any more than you do. Children move very quickly and no one has eyes in the back of their head . The ratio isn’t 1-1, if you want that you need a nanny.
Change nursery if you want to but EVERY nursery will have children displaying this behaviour.