Nursery worry

[seaandsky]

After a rocky start, my 19 month old loves his nursery and I really have had a good feel about it (having looked at loads of options) and the staff are v warm, lots of creative stuff and most impt he seems v happy. However, today when I picked him his key worker explained his shoes were very smelly due to the fact he had stood in dog poo that afternoon. She had done her best to clean them and she was really worried about it all- v honest and open girl. But, she then went on to explain, they had been out of the nursery in the nearby park (which is v open and right next to a busy road) and she said she had looked around and my son was nowhere to be seen and then in a panic she found him behind a bush with another boy from the nursery. I was stunned that she could be so blaze about the fact they had not been watching him, even if for a second, or could have been longer.When I heard this bit I was of course in great shock, but thought best to sleep on it and talk to them in the morning. Just wondering how anyone else would have felt or had similar experiences?

Little bit worrying and as you say to
Mention it lightly. I would just have a word with her or someone more senior and say you are a bit concerned and see what they say...

Well that worries me, and i work in a nursery i would press the nursery to take more precautions when out and about?

• Ask to see their risk assessments for the walk and the park, this should tell you the perceived risks and what they do to combat them.

• I assume you signed permission for them to take your child off nursery premises, if not why not? You sign permission for your child to leave, it should tell you when your child would be leaving, returning, the ratio on the trip, how they are getting there and back and what they would be doing and why.

I would tell them your concerns and ask what they can do to change it, so things like this don't happen again in the future.

I would like to know what ratio they were on? how on earth did they manage to lose sight of 2 children even if on minimum staffing of 1:3. Not good enough and I'm speaking as a nursery manager. If it was one of my staff I'd be furious.

I'd be furious.

I'd be very very angry as it's open and near a busy road.

I wouldn't say why, but I would ask the manager to see the forms you have signed and rescind the one that allows them to take them off the premises willy nilly - tell her if they have any actual trips planned you will consider it. You wont relax about it otherwise.