111 reported me to safeguarding because I left my children play in their bedroom while I was getting dressed

[Mummaofgirlies]

Yesterday morning when I was getting dressed in my room and I let my two year old and four year old play in the older girls room. The stair gate was shut, they were playing nicely with Lego blocks which they have access to in the day. Then I heard a bang and the two year old started crying. As I rushed in I saw the her getting off the floor underneath the window. I gave her a cuddle and she started falling asleep on me. I thought it’s because she started getting cough this morning and we never get a good night sleep either, so I took her to my bed to read a book and she vomited. This could have been the benilin she had an hour ago, or she could have hit her head. I asked the four year old if her sister managed to climb on the windowsill and she said yes. To be on the safe side I called 111 and I explained that I was in a room next to them when it happened so I don’t know if she did or didn’t jump of the window or if she hit her head. I asked her if anything hurts and she pointed to her toes. She never touched her head at all actually. I explained that I don’t know if she really jumped off as it’s normally the older one that jumps of the windowsill. The person I spoke to told me to await a call from a clinician before going to the hospital. When the clinician called half an hour later he understood that my children jump out of the windows to the outside, to which I said no way, we have child locks, that would never happen. He told me that a safeguarding was made to social services because I left the children unsupervised. I spoke to my friend in children services and she confirmed that it’s another waste of time referral like they get many off, just like we had numerous inappropriate safeguarding referrals in adult social services, but still it doesn’t stop me from being really really annoyed with them. They didn’t ask why I wasn’t there or how long I left them alone. They didn’t consider that child’s bedroom is usually a safe place and they are there unsupervised when they go to sleep. I would like them to tell me how am I supposed to go to the toilet or do anything at all (make lunch, get them water to drink, fetch their clean clothes) if I can’t leave them unsupervised for two minutes. I’m also going to make a request to social services to access my records because I’m concerned that they wrote that I let my children jump out of the windows. I once had a GP writing that I physically attacked my partner after I was there with mental health problems mentioning that we had a fight (meaning argument). English is not my first language so she should have double checked that she understood me correctly. Luckily my regular GP saw it and told me about it and he edited it for me.
It sort of puts me off going to health for help when they do things like this.

Well said 👍

I’d see it as a positive, that they are doing their job, it is something that’s cleared up quickly, but I can see why they did it, as I assume could you if it was someone else,

Some young parents only have children to get out of their parents home . As they don’t want to listen to their parents . I have seen kids standing on the ledge of the window . Where is the mother . You know how dangerous it is for young kids as young as 3 years old who know how to speak English. By English standards and behaviour and go to church . But don’t know the dangers that come with being a parent with responsibilities. That they need to address, quite frankly they need lessons from their parents who have been abused by the police. And the social services that they don’t see the support that all parents need to safeguard and protect and support the children with adequate resources and skills and support . If you had a trauma from young men who believe that abusing a child giving them a child , but he don’t want the child . And parent don’t want to get rid off it , which is understandable as abortions are forbidden and not allowed. What parent is teaching a son to abuse another person child and not understand meaning of using contraception to prevent this to happen .

I’m guessing you are in the US. This mostly isn’t a description of the situation in the UK, or the experiences of those who have posted here on the thread. Some of post is difficult to make sense of for me, but I think I get the gist.

I am not in the us, I am Latin American English understand this first hand.

But the report was not made because you let the child unsupervised in their room but because an injury might have happened and you are unanle to explain it. I think the title is missleading as it reads that nothing happpened, something did happen (as you admit you heard a bang) but you don't know what.