Child hurt at preschool- help please!

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Hi everyone

My 3 year old goes to a preschool where she is very happy. A couple of times now she has come home with scratches or cuts, for which there was no communication from the preschool or accident forms etc. (DC told me what happened, or I would never have known - it’s always been the same child hurting her)

When I asked the manager about it, I was told that there is a child with SEN at the preschool who can be quite (unintentionally) rough, and is getting 1 to 1 supervision. But my DC has again come home with scratches and said this boy hurt her. There is still no accident form or any communication from the preschool about it - I don’t know if they even realised that this happened.

My understanding was that accident / incident forms are a requirement, and it is concerning to me that there is officially no record of all this happening. Any advice on how to deal with this would be really appreciated - I do not blame the child at all, but feel it’s the preschool’s responsibility to make sure all children are safe.

thank you!

I would speak again to the manager and her key worker and say any injury caused to your child you want to see and sign an accident form. I would also communicate this in writing as well as a verbal conversation. The fact they're not doing it could be because they're not seeing it which would mean the child is not being monitored all the time, which he should be. I would also be telling my daughter to give him a wide berth if he's causing harm, I understand he's sen so might not know, but that doesn't mean other children should be ok with getting hurt because of it.
My daughter has had accident forms for the tiniest of things, if she's scratched her arm in the garden, bumped her head although no mark left etc.

Definitely ask for the accident forms, and also ask to see the room manager and accident forms every time there are injuries on pick up. Don’t leave until it’s sorted. I’d also ask for a meeting with the nursery manager about this, frame it as how to keep your DC safe. It is not ok that this is happening.

I'd have a meeting with the nursery and raise my concerns as well as putting everything into writing.

This is a safeguarding issue and should be taken seriously. Your DD should be safe, so ask them what they are going to do to keep her safe while in their care.

Yes, the injuries are from one child in particular, which you can mention, but they will not give you much information... so make it about your DD and her safety at nursery.

They should be completing incident report forms. You need to find out how are they going to ensure DD safety.

Thank you so much everyone, this has been really helpful. I will ask to meet the manager in person to talk about this. Just wondering - will they still have to fill out an incident form if they didn’t actually see the incident happen? And can I ask for an incident form for incidents that happened in the past?

thanks all, this is all very new and overwhelming to me.

The rules in my jurisdiction would mean they do. We also had a process of noting on drop off a visible bruise etc. Looking at you son number 1 for some reason would manage to bruise his elbows a lot. He used to "forget" he had elbows 🤦‍♀️.