Child given money by "Vicar" at school

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So my 10 year old daughter (year 5) came home from school on Thursday and told us the Vicar (possibly just a trainee, I'm not entirely sure) who was taking their collective worship at school gave her £5 to "get herself an Easter treat" and that it was "just between me and you" I asked her if she told the teacher and she said no. I feel quite uneasy about this, should I say something to the school?

The sex of the person may alter the balance of probability on the dangerous/stupid question, but it makes no difference to the advice the OP needs. Her actions, and those of the school and diocese, need to be the same either way.

Contact the diocese. Their safeguarding department, you can contact the school too when it opens. The vicar/curate’s jurisdiction will be the diocese.

In all fairness, people have been saying exactly this for the last 30 pages, including posters who are vicars and diocesan workers.
I don't know why she hasn't.

I don’t know why either. I suggested this to her too a few pages back.

Yes, it would seem the obvious thing to do, and would get a reasonably prompt response.

I think it's odd that you're even trying to argue this! It's not ok for an adult in a position of authority to give money (or a gift of any kind for that matter) and then ask the child to keep it "just between them". I'm not really sure what more context you need.

I'm not sure how many times I need to write "It's wrong" and "It's not appropriate". I put both in that post, just to make sure. Did you not see either of those?

Yes, they do.

Any update from OP? What did the school say? Are they following it up?

It’s gone very quiet. Probably kid made it up.

Yes very suspicious.

How many times do I have to say that I've emailed the school but they are not back open until the 20th, no one answered my email this last week so I don't think anyone is monitoring it over the holidays.

I can't give an update if there is no update yet 🙄

I'm shocked that neither the school nor the Diocese has acted and responded to you.
It's been 2 weeks!

When they do respond to you, I’d add a complaint about the timeframe for responses, this isn’t acceptable really. A few days, fine, but this was over a week ago now I think?

The school is closed for the holidays. OP has said this multiple times!

For starters none of the staff are paid during the Easter holidays!

Another thing i am doubtful about is that at an Easter service, i would have expected the vicar to be front and centre to proceedings. Why would h a busy vicarvhave been invited and then shoved on a sofa at the back? I teach in a CofE school and the vicar is leading worship at school services

For starters none of the staff are paid during the Easter holidays!

Except they are paid during holidays unless you are seriously suggesting that the head & other teachers don't get holiday pay?

You don't teach at OP's daughter's school though do you?
I can't believe the amount of people here questioning the validity of this story and trying to catch OP out.
News flash! adult men groom children. Including vicars, priests, policemen and teachers. They do with a with a smile because they want to draw people to them. Happened with our childminder's adult son who is now in prison for abusing children in his mother's care.. So yes, it happens. All the time.
This is why victims don't come forward.

Teaching staff are Paid during the holidays, but not FOR thevholidays. Why would you be expecting a teacher to work on a day they are not paid for??

They’re paid every month.

Are you saying a potentially serious child protection concern could be going on for six weeks before the school would be aware of it? That’s not safe at all.

It doesn’t seem like anyone is reading anything.

OP hasn’t said the school has an out of office with emergency contact details on.

There is no way anyone would be able to escalate anything involving the school.

Yes, I would add that into my complaint. Why wouldn’t you?

Heads & other teachers don't just clock off at end of term until the next term.. There are all manner of emergencies that they should be available to get involved with during school holidays like a fire or a flood or power outage or a roof collapsing or this safeguarding issue.

I don't need go eork in the op's dd's school to know it would be extremely rude and pointless to invite a Vicar to a service to celebrate Easter and then stick him at the back and lead the service yourself! I wonder how rgat woukd go down with SIAMS inspection and the governors responsible for upholding the school's religious character.
Ibam assuming as your dd kniw tge vicar by name thst it is a church if England school?

The headteacher (and SLT) do not have the same rights and working conditions as teachers in general, so it is surprising that the email has not been picked up by anyone.

I don't know whether they claim for it but my school also has a family support worker who does end up supporting families during school holidays (helping them deal with life admin, helping with appointments they find tricky, signposting to other support). I would like to think they put in a claim for these additional hours and do still get time off. They also have safeguarding training so would also be able to assist in situations that require it. The sendco also does similar (but being part of SLT) it is expected within the role.
It seems unusual that this school is completely switched off, as many safeguarding issues happen during school holidays.

Why? I don't think it's rude at all. My late dad was a vicar and never expected special treatment wherever he went!!
And again I'm not sure why so many people seem so determined to doubt OP. That to me is as unsettling as an adult giving a child money and telling them to keep quiet about it.