I understand the dad is upset by the injuries, but surely accidents happen?

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Thoughts on this? It's not unusual for children to fall and hurt themselves. OK, this looks a bad one, but to say the nursery was negligent seems a bit of a stretch?

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/dad-pulls-daughter-out-nursery-30030123

Sounds like the dad is gearing up for compensation…

I wouldn’t say you’d get much compensation you’d probably get to leave without paying notice.

When my children were little I’d feel a real visceral rage when they got hurt, a weird primordial protective instinct I suppose. I didn’t act on it I gritted my teeth, said these things happen and signed the accident form.

If you were already unhappy with the care you were receiving then it could easily be the last straw.

That's a nasty injury, and it's pretty worrying that the nursery seems to have no idea how the child got it. It suggests inadequate supervision.

I saw this posted on Facebook by the father. The little girl was on her first day back at nursery after having a week off to recover from a head injury sustained at nursery the week before.

They sent her back to the same nursery after the initial accident because they also thought ‘it’s not unusual for children to fall, and it’s a bit of a stretch to say nursery was negligent’

I mean if they're unhappy she was injured and felt it necessary to report them then that's fair enough, but there are a lot of dramatics in the article and going to the papers with sad faces is always a bit pathetic.

It looks very nasty! But at 3, they won't be constantly being watched every second. I'd be more interested in what actually caused the injury as it looks like quite a large area and also like something was possibly sharp. Not sure it required going to the papers though? I'm not sure broadcasting pictures of your injured daughter's face is quite the win they thought it might be when there are actual avenues for reporting stuff and investigations to take place.

I was looking after a toddler who fell off a ramp at nursery, he had to go to theatre to have his head stitched. I didn't hear his parents complaining! Accidents happen.

That looks worse than it is because of the blood. And if it's glue able. It's not severe and will heal well.

Yes but if they’d fallen again the following week you might have done. Pp said it apparently her first day back after a previous injury.

@Badbudgeter that does change it slightly. I couldn't actually read the whole article because of pop ups

But children fall over, and some are 'clumsier' than others. Was there a suggestion that the previous incident was because another child had hurt her or something? You can't stop a 3yo falling over. You can try to make the environment as safe as possible, but other than turning nursery into a soft play with padded walls, and not letting them do any of the important risk-taking play in the garden area etc, that's just part of it.

How bad was a previous injury that she had to take time off nursery for it?! It sounds like it was pretty bad but they don't really mention it in the article. DD1 .has had a few falls at nursery over the years, just like at home, but she's never sustained any injuries that would require her being kept off nursery. A bumped head, a bruised knee, a gash ...

'Neil admitted his daughter had been 'clumsy' in the past.' The fact he's saying this in the article suggests it might be a bit of an understatement!

Impossible to say how I feel without hearing the outcome of the nurseries investigation.

Looks like a simple, common accident, with the dad being a self-important, audience-seeking, trouble-making twatbag.

You can tell by his heartstring-tugging photography complete with tears.
It's a small cut where people often bang their brow.

I would have pulled my child from that nursery too. I don’t see what the parents have done wrong?

Ran to the papers? Pathetic.

It is pathetic. It's about him, not the kid, who is bloody fine.

My child sustained a laceration to her head at childcare. I had to take them to A&E and have it glued. They were covered in blood and it looked horrendous and has scarred.
Was I upset? Yes. Was sitting in A&E for hours into the evening awful? Yes. Was it the childcare settings fault? No. They tripped and fell just like they could have done at home/grandparents/with friends etc. Unless there is anything to show from the investigation about neglect it seems premature to tell the papers about it.

With the best will in the world you can't see every child every second of each day.
We can't as parents, let alone in a childcare setting where one member of staff will be responsible for more than 2 or 3 children.

Accidents happen in seconds.

It looks like a bruise on her forehead, cuts in the hairline, gash above eye. if the nursery had a reasonable explanation eg she fell over, than fair enough. But the nursery here has no idea how that happened- so how long was she left unattended for? The parents aren’t unreasonable. Tbh I’m not sure what could have caused that ASIDE from negligence as the placement of the injuries is hardly akin to a knee graze.

I haven’t read the article but that picture scared the bajeezes out of me. Nursery should be much much safer than how you are with your own kid. No way should that happen.

Or the papers picked it up from Facebook or Twitter or ?

Accidents happen though, especially with ones so young. The nursery say they aren’t sure on what happened but that doesn’t mean there was inadequate supervision. The staff may have been turned away from the little girl whilst helping another child. I know with my own children, an accident has happened and I’m not quite sure what because I didn’t witness it. I had to go on what my kids could tell me. That doesn’t mean I wasn’t with them or supervising, more that I wasn’t looking in their direction at that moment in time. My daughter was a nightmare as she was, and still is, so clumsy.

Children suffer injuries when at nursery or preschool just as they would at home. Just because they are under someone else’s care doesn’t mean they suddenly develop a magic bubble that protects them. With the best will in he world, these things can’t always be avoided.

And just to mention, my daughter gashed her eye at preschool as she tripped and fell Ono a child’s chair. It just happened and was no one’s faukt 🤷🏼‍♀️

He did say she is a very clumsy child maybe that's what needs looking at...
Looks like she tripped and banged the edge of a chair or a toy