Going in to see headteacher today.

Spiderjonifer

The main aspect with your child is that they have a bon a fide medical condition. They should not be forced to wash their hands in potentially caustic soap. Being forced to wash their hands and threatend is very disturbing from any point of view. See the head and fin out the facts first.

Action you could take would be to let the head sort out what the problem is. It may be a misunderstanding.

Complain to the LEA and ask for an investigation to be conducted. Go throuh the proper grievence proceedure. Do not be fobbed off. Involve you local councillor.

Remind the schoo,that the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. Institutions such as school have to make reasonable adjustments to accomodate those with disabling conditions. This is not something that they can deny.

Ask for a risk assesment tobe completed for you son. Ask for an incident for to be completed. Ask the school for their legal represntatives contact details should you wish to pursue this further for any leagal avenue.

Consider complaining and reporting the teacher to the General Teaching Council. Detais on the web.

Submit a letter of conplaint the G`nors and ask for a formal investigation.

Consider contacting OFSTED.

Consider contacting social services as this may be a protection incident.

Consider if there are any further after effects.

Others may have other suggestions.

poet123

I think the OP may be satisfied with her son getting an apology and an assurance that it won't happen again. In turn this should lead to the teacher concerned being more careful in the future.

Savvy_Sue

Have you been in touch with the National Eczema Society ever? they have some 'eczema in schools' leaflets which might be very useful!

Flashdaisy

OP, glad the headteacher was helpful. Hope the matter gets resolved now, and that the teacher involved gets a bit of a talking to. I agree with the other posts that say a teacher should behave towards their pupils how they would wish their pupils to behave, this teacher sounds like a bit of a bully TBH.

dizziblonde

There should be a sign - probably in the staffroom with all the children in the school with medical needs and their photographs. Yes class teachers carry the information around in their heads, and when I've had classes of my own I've known who's allergic to what, who suffers hayfever, who's got eczema and has cream if it's bothering them (again, some schools won't let them reapply cream at school - my mother had bitter fights with this one when my brother was a kid) - but it's more for cover teachers coming in, midday supervisors (who haven't got 30 kids to deal with but the whole school) and so anyone who might come into contact with the kids is aware of any issues that may arise. Keeping 30 kids' needs in your head is all well and good, keeping 300 kids' needs in there when you may not know them all well is another matter, and if you've got to a school at 8am in the morning for the first time - you're not going to know these things. It's been a while since I've gone in a school that doesn't have this in place - but I guess there are still some out there. Most schools also have medical lists in the front of the register or on the teacher's desk somewhere as well - it's something I make a point of looking for when I go into schools covering for teachers (covering my back, and it pre-empts any possibility of kids trying it on if I've made sure I'm fully informed before they get into school). The level of detail on them varies but generally anything like allergies (eczema would come in here I guess), diabetes, glue ear (nice to be forewarned a child might struggle to hear you) is on there, and in many cases other things like children being prone to explosive nosebleeds etc is noted down as well (again - incredibly nice to be forewarned of THAT one before there's a torrent of blood everywhere!). As for soap and eczema - my little brother was about as bad as your child as a kid and a) he's thankfully grown out of the worst of it just as some hope for the future, and b) what he used to use instead of soap was some of his diprobase cream when washing his hands etc in school.

phunkles

Im guessing the sign will be going in the staffroom Roxie
Ive been in secondary schools where theres literally a notice board in the staff with small thumbnail photos of every child with a condition and a brief outline of the condition and then a further booklet on the side with more details included.
I think its mainly for student teachers and cover teachers to be aware of all pupils.
I know I used to check the wall for updates for my classes.
At least the head made the right noises and hopefully your son wont be confused by the allergic to the teacher comment (which was quite frankly a bit bizarre )