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Can I view the CCTV?

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Mothersworries · 08/09/2024 20:51

My 2 year and 2 month old started at nursery last week, she’d had a week and a half of settling in sessions but did not like it. Her first day didn’t go too bad she’d been on and off crying all morning, but not the worst.

On her 2nd day, I was at work and received a phone call from the nursery to be told there had been an accident and a member of staff had stood on my daughters arm, they’d said she was having a tantrum (edited by MNHQ) and rolling on the floor which I can believe as she doesn’t like nursery yet and they’d stood on her by accident. They said she’d been crying for over an hour and not really moving the arm so advised I come and collect and get her checked over so I did.

Collected her from the nursery and signed the accident form, and took her to a&e she was moving it slightly but not a much as usual and was holding her elbow a lot. We needed a scan as the it was on her elbow and a joint was involved.

Went down for the scan and she screamed and cried a lot as we had to move her arm into different positions for x-ray. So the results came back fine but the doctor said she thought that it had been slightly dislocated an injury sometimes called pulled elbow children get from getting swung by their arms and when we’ve done the x-ray it had popped back into place.

My daughters arm is now completely fine had no issues since. But the more I’ve thought about it and spoken with people I keep being told to request the CCTV? Is this something nurseries do?

I do believe it was a genuine accident but I can’t help worrying now. I also do no want to start my relationship off with the nursery on a bad foot. What should I do?

Do nurseries show cctv on request??

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Mysterian · 09/09/2024 19:26

They're going to have to report themselves to Ofsted already.

stichguru · 09/09/2024 20:16

My view is that your child got hurt by something that you wouldn't expect to happen. It's fine that nursery won't give you the footage, but the onus should be on THEM to reasonably explain what happened. If per there own policies, they need to do this without showing you the footage, that's fine, but they need to do it. If they can't, then they either decide that in this case they should show you the footage even it isn't their normal policy, or they expect you to report them to social services and maybe the police. Maybe your child was crawling on the floor where she shouldn't really have been, maybe a worker tripped while carrying another child and instinctively put her foot down to stop her self falling, and didn't have time to react to your child's arm being there. Maybe the injury to your child was done because the worker managed to act to prevent herself and a baby being really seriously injured which would probably mean she'd done the right thing. The point is that you deserve to know.

DreamW3aver · 09/09/2024 20:22

BurbageBrook · 09/09/2024 18:04

I'd honestly be reporting this to police.

On what basis?

ChateauMargaux · 09/09/2024 20:30

Ask to see it... I would.

BurbageBrook · 10/09/2024 09:21

@DreamW3aver on the basis they can assess the CCTV. Also the excuse sounds like bullshit.

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