School safeguarding issue??

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Picked my son up today who is in y1 - he said "there was some bad news today mummy.....people have been touching other people's private"

I asked him if he had touched anyone's privates and he said no, then I asked if anyone had touched his and he said yes, then he mimed prodding his penis through his trousers and he said another boy had done that to him in the yard and the teacher had seen and had taken him and the other boy to the head teacher who had told him off, and then the head had come into her class to talk about private's being private and not tickling people when they didn't want to be tickled. I asked if this had happened before and he said earlier this week the same boy had gone under the table at lunchtime and prodded him.

I'm tempted to ring school in the morning and ask for more info, although they seem to have handled it ok but invisibly ds is only 6 so I don't know if there is more to it!? What would you do??

I think if you’re concerned ring the school for peace of mind.

Sorry for typos

His class

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Any other views?

They should have told you.

However, this is not a safeguarding concern for your son, rather for the other child. I imagine they’ve made a referral to the safe guarding team for the child that has been doing the prodding.

I'm amazed you weren't informed by the head teacher on pick up. This is not okay.

One your child has been inappropriately touched twice by another child.
Two, the child doing the inappropriate touching does not need telling off... they need to be looking into what leads them to think this behaviour is okay. Often inappropriate touching in school aged children is learned behaviour. I'd be very concerned about what's happening to them at home

The school have dealt with it. All you would be told is that, and that the situation is being monitored.
You won't be told if the school consider it a safeguarding issue or not. It's probably not.You won't be told if further action is being taken.

Probably worth telling the school what your son told you. They may not be aware of the first incident under the table. As others have said they won’t tell you what action is being taken

Its a chat we have surprisingly often in year 1. It might be something to worry about, it might not be, sometimes it is just boys being silly and not realising why they shouldn't, coz it is all about the bum and willy humour at that age, we usually cover it as a class and it stops.

The is quite good at that age, it is however annoying and catchy.

I'd speak to the school as they may not know about the under the table incident.