Formal complaint or not??

[Hyperquiet]

So one year old had only been at nursery a month and was bitten really hard on the face by another child.

It has been a month and the mark is big and obvious so I am concerned about it fading and also find it upsetting to look at.

At the time I signed the accident form without reading it properly. I was expecting the mark to go within a week or 2 as I hadn't dealt with this sort of thing before (even though it was really bad at the time).

I was told the bite was intercepted within a few seconds but given the severity am I right to doubt this?

An additional concern i have is the child has bitten before and so is a known biter and it wasn't prevented.

I have raised my concerns about the bite with staff in the room and with a manager over email but the email conversation was a more general email and included that topic so we didnt delve into it much.

Perspective, similar experiences and advice is appreciated.

Thanks. This helps reassure that they may well have stopped it quickly but the damage can still occur very quickly.

Some child only bite once though. It doesn't necessarily mean they're a serial biter. I don't know what the nursery could gave done. If they put the biter in another room he would just bite someone else.

The only way you can be certain to prevent it is by keeping the child isolated from other children.

This.

Such as what?

A pp has described an incident where her own child was sitting on her lap and was bitten by a friend’s child.
I was once sitting on the floor with both my children next to me, and one bit the other quicker than I could intervene to stop it.

That's so true. Employing a childminder with one or two other children would surely reduce the chances of a biter, but you can't remove the risk altogether without stopping small children interacting with each other.

I worded that badly. Should have said she might look for an alternative where the chance of getting bittten is reduced.