totally willing to accept I may be being neurotic but here goes ... dcs go to a day nursery in a private house. The owners have a swimming pool in their garden. There is no fence around the pool but there is a very high fence with a gate in it (which kids could not open) separating their private garden and pool from the kids' areas. Three times now the gate in that high fence has been open when I've dropped dcs off. I have mentioned it to staff members who have closed it and today I told the owner herself that I was very concerned about it. She said that it was done deliberately as part of her health and safety risk assessment.
Every morning they carry out a boundary check (I think that's what she called it) and leaving the gate open from time to time was part of this risk assessment. She said it was to see whether children would go through the gate. Sometimes, she said, they leave the front door open for the same reason. Then she said it was to see whether parents noticed this sort of thing, and I had so well done! Now this all sounds insane to me but I know h&s can be insane. Could this possibly be true?
I don't get on with her very well anyway and have come close to moving them out before but as one is settled and the other is settling I don't want to fly off the handle.