Nursery Fees - am I entitled to request a refund?

elainew

By his clothing--do you mean his trousers? I used to work in a nursery and on many occasions we cut pants/knickers off children who had soiled themselves--its horrific trying to get soiled pants off a distressed child and often the easy option is to hold them tight and cut them off. Means you get them cleaned up as quickly as possible and to cut the amount of stress.
I'm not so sure what the problem is or maybe its just me?

whitewing

That's interesting. I have never known a child have his clothes cut off. Surely if that were common practice it ought to say it in a contract? I don't recall signing anything to that effect when my DS was at nursery but that was a long time ago. I'm surprised, but I don't see a lot of young 'uns.

elainew

I wouldnt say its written down in black and white but we used to tell our parents not to buy expensive character pants but cheap primark ones. Usually when potty training you find the child poo's then sits in it and without sounding graphic--it goes EVERYWHERE !!! The easy way to avoid much upset is to cut them off. I did it with my own child--its quick, its easy and it doesnt put them off potty training !

Anthillmob

choccywoccy wrote: »

My son was potty training - he is 3 years old. He had soiled and was refusing to co-operate with being changed so they restrained him and cut his clothing off him with a pair of scissors!! he also recieved a nose bleed at the same time but they did not keep an accident record book - they deny restraining him and deny that he recieved the bump at the same time - but Ofsted issued a welfare requirement notice and took 3 actions against them - they have remained registered tho, and the staff who did this didnt even get a disciplinary! worse still - they issued a letter to all parents saying ofsted had "exonerated" them of all claims!!!

You can see why I am so angry? I am looking into reporting this to the charity commision - it looks like they are supposed to report any kind of incident to them anyway - but I bet they havent!!!

OMG :eek: i have absolutely no advice to offer but my god. jesus. they cant do that. its wrong. they need reporting everywhere. if my child was treated like that id go to the press and everything. that tantamounts abuse in my opinion.

good luck.

x

LinasPilibaitisisbatman

Anthillmob wrote: »

OMG :eek: i have absolutely no advice to offer but my god. jesus. they cant do that. its wrong. they need reporting everywhere. if my child was treated like that id go to the press and everything. that tantamounts abuse in my opinion.

good luck.

x

So what would you do if your child had an accident, was distressed and protesting so you couldnt change the nappy and clean them?

elainew

Anthillmob wrote: »

OMG :eek: i have absolutely no advice to offer but my god. jesus. they cant do that. its wrong. they need reporting everywhere. if my child was treated like that id go to the press and everything. that tantamounts abuse in my opinion.

good luck.

x

surely its abuse to let a child sit in its own !!!!!! because they refuse to get changed

LinasPilibaitisisbatman

And if it was abuse why havent the police been involved.

In reality its some overprotective mother who doesnt have a clue what to do in such situations and who doesnt realise a notice means very little in real terms.

Anthillmob

in answer to you both. the child gets changed wether they like it or not. taking a pair of scissors to their clothes/pants/whatever is outrageous imho and more likely to scare the child than a quick whip down of the pants and clean up operation. a bit of poop plopping on the floor is nothing. easily cleaned.

children get fears easily. dont feed their fears by using ruddy scissors to cut their clothing from them.

and do you have to be so rude? i dont believe the OP is being overprotective at all, she is just being a mother. maybe you have a different idea of how parenting should be done. let us in on the secret to your fail-proof parenting skills.

LinasPilibaitisisbatman

Anthillmob wrote: »

in answer to you both. the child gets changed wether they like it or not. taking a pair of scissors to their clothes/pants/whatever is outrageous imho and more likely to scare the child than a quick whip down of the pants and clean up operation. a bit of poop plopping on the floor is nothing. easily cleaned.

children get fears easily. dont feed their fears by using ruddy scissors to cut their clothing from them.

and do you have to be so rude? i dont believe the OP is being overprotective at all, she is just being a mother. maybe you have a different idea of how parenting should be done. let us in on the secret to your fail-proof parenting skills.

So the child gets changed no matter what. basically what happened here.:rolleyes:

Anthillmob

you do not take a pair of scissors to a childs clothes full stop. the child is distressed enough. scissors would make it ten times worse.

so quite with the silly replies and tell me all about your perfecting parenting.

*rolls eyes*