Advice needed in failure to safeguard

[RiceAndP]

On a couple of occasions the school have failed to safeguard dc and it resulted in injury's. complained about it and they have upheld the complaint, so what would be the next step?

What was it that they failed to safeguard op?

teacher left class unsupervised when shouldn't of and dc was assaulted and left bleeding. They have admitted the teacher should not of left the classroom at all.

How old are dc

not so much safeguard, failing in duty of care. dc is 7

Do they not have assistants in the classroom. Sorry you must feel so upset that your child was hurt.

Who upheld complaint?. Your poor child.

Presume your complaint was to HT.

There should be a review of classroom procedures and what needs to happen if a teacher needs to leave the room - eg hand over supervision to another adult.

What would you want to happen?

I think you need to direct your anger towards whoever assaulted your dd. I do not think it totally wrong for a teacher to step out of the room and expect that no one gets assaulted???

Two issues here. If the head teacher has accepted that the school was at fault then they could easily have taken some action against the school teacher concerned. However that will remain a confidential matter between head teacher and staff member.
The second issue as madamecastafiore alludes to is what has actually happened around the assault. Again this will be handled by the head teacher in relation to the other child concerned. It is possible that this could be considered an exclusion issue but more likely to be handled internally and again only the head teacher, pupil and parents will be aware of outcome.
You could formally ask the head teacher in writing what has happened regarding the assaults but you are unlikely to get an answer that will make you happy.
The nuclear option is to approach the LADO (Local Authority Designated Officer) and seek their opinion as to whether this is a serious breach of safeguarding in the school. I think that the school already acknowledging that there was an issue does make this probably a waste of every bodies time however.

As admission has explained, the school have indicated to you that your complaint is justified, but they are not obliged to tell you what they are doing. Ds was assaulted in a playground incident and whilst the school upheld my complaint and concerns they couldn't say anything about what happened to the other children involved or the teacher who failed in their duty of care.
The next step depends on what you feel should happen in relation to your child and should be addressed to the head teacher (if for example you wish the children to be in different classes etc)