creche and car seat

[TreeBird16]

Can someone help me wit a proportionate response please? My 2 girls, age 3 and 5.5 are in a local creche. Crèche do school drop off and collection during term and camp in summer. 3 year olds room never go out. Dd1 gets brought out a couple of times a week to museams, cinema etc. Found out today that some of the time she has been sharing a seat and seat belt with a other child in the car without a booster. I'm really upset. They obviously have bigger numbers than they can transport. They have been in this creche since January so really only settled recently.

What's a proportionate response? I need grounding here

Sorry I wrote proportionate response twice but I don't want to over/under react.

Just got context we take car safety really really seriously

It's illegal. I can't believe they're offering a service they can't legally provide!

www.gov.uk/seat-belts-law/overview

I know!!!!

I'm not in the UK but also illegal where I am

And surely crèches are covered by even more stringent regulations

Grounding? You don't need grounding. I'd go mental! That is unbelievable!

So what do I do? They are happy there so I'm hesitant to pull them out but I think it says so much about the culture. And this has happened multiple times. I'm going to send an email now and follow up in the morning

An email def is a good start, gives you the chance to offload the rage with a chance to see their response and reply calmly face to face

Email sent. I got a mealy mouthed reply saying it would be looked into and dd1 must be lying about sitting sharing a seat in the front as they would never do. I can honestly say my dd1 has never told a lie. I believe her 100%. The idea of being unrestrained in a car or sharing a seat belt would never occur to her unless they actually happened

Serious safeguarding concern. Ofsted and local authority LADO.

As I mentioned earlier not in the UK. But there is probably an ofsted equivilant so I'll look into that. It's such a shit time of year for this to happen . Everywhere is full for
Sept and only a few places do afterschool pickup from my dd1s school

I'd pull them out. I know you said they've settled there, but if they are prepared to cut corners in safety - and so massively so - what else are they prepared to cut corners with?

Will you ever be able to relax with them in charge of the care of your children again?

Well the update is i did yank them straight out. They started a new nursery yesterday. The creche are completely denying it and saying my daughter is is lying. I have contacted 2 other mothers I know and they have asked their kids and the kids have told the exact same story as my DD1. They are also removing their kids.

I have demanded my money back so hopefully in the next day or 2 that will come through.

Well done

Well done. I'm glad you've told other parents too. Shame their is no official body in your country like ofsted!