Childs eyebrow cut open badly advice

[Lucra88]

My child goes to a SEN school, today i received a phone call asking to pick them up and take them to hospital for a cut on thier head, then another call 5 mins later to ask to meet them there as the bleeding wouldnt stop, when i arrived i found it wasnt small cut, but an inch or two gash throw thier eyebrow, deep enough to see the white parts of muscle, was told had been done with a chair but the teacher who took them didnt know the full story and would call me later, the hospital chose to glue it shut and suture it to make it less stressful for my child.
This is clearly going to leave quite a scar and was close to blinding my child in 1 eye.
When i got the call to explain what happened, my child had pick thier chair up and slammed it on the floor to vent thier anger, another child had then picked thier chair up and throw it at my child causing this injury, that child has been suspended until summer holidays (so in my mind giving them a longer holiday), i was told thing are in place so it wouldnt happen again, but wasnt told what these
measures where.

As you can imagine i am not very pleased with this whole situation, i am planning on getting a meeting tomorrow with the head or deputy head to "discuss" this.

I have read multiple threads stating this should be reported to ofsted and such, i was looking for advice about what to bring up in the meeting and what is the school required to do in this siutation
Thank you for any advice or information

just ask how they will protect children from a similar incident happening again - no need to report it to ofsted (who won't be interested) or anyone else.

As horrible as it is for you and your child, but it does sound like a freak accident, a one off rather than a regular occurrence?

I'm not sure what, aside from every child having a 1-2-1 support, the school can realistically do?

If your child had thrown their chair and it hit another pupil, rather than slam it down, what would you expect the school to do and what repercussions for your child?

The school should be conducting an investigation regarding the triggers and response to the incident, for any learnings to prevent a repeat. A child who is a known risk should have an individual risk assessment.

The school won't and shouldn't give you any details of the child's issues or their consequences, but if you don't like suspension, what would you want?

Ofsted won’t be interested and people only write that because they have no idea how schools work or for the fun of winding up an op.

Have your meeting with the school and listen to what they say. If you aren’t ready to do that then take someone with you. If after the meeting, you feel that the school has potentially acted incorrectly then ask for a copy of the school’s complaints procedure and follow the steps in it in the order given.

What do you want the outcome of the meeting to be? It would be reasonable to expect the school to explain what they are doing to keep your child safe, including the steps they are putting in place to better manage your child's behaviour, but not what they are doing to manage the other child's behaviour. Whether or not the other child has been given a fixed term exclusion (no such thing as suspension in school behaviour management in this country) and what they do during that time is their parents' concern, not yours. Similarly, the other child’s parents shouldn’t be told how the school will be managing your child. Do not discuss the incident with the other child's parents and if they approach you, refer them to school.

It sounds like the school dealt with the actual injury appropriately and have followed up by contacting you as you requested, so you probably don’t have cause for complaint there.

Were there previous incidents and an RA in place? Was the RA appropriate and updated? Had the child's needs changed, home life or have any warnings not been communicated that may have precipitated more supervision?

Was it out of the blue and could not be anticipated?

Sometimes you could have been more proactive and sometimes there is simply no warning.

What are their next steps?

It sounds like your child slamming their chair down caused another child to become agitated and reactive. Staff might be able to prevent some / most of these occurrences escalating but not all of them. I think if you're happy with the school generally and you're happy with how they looked after your child post injury you might need to chalk this one up to being just one of those things.
Blame wont turn the clock back or prevent things like this happening again, the working environment must be very challenging (understatement) and all teachers are totally frazzled by this point in the term. Hope your child makes a speedy recovery x