nursery cut our daughters hair, update on page 9

jackieb

Louby-Lou wrote: »

I work with people with learning difficulties and have alway been told its a criminal offence to cut someone hair or even nails without permission. Not sure if it applies to children but permission should have been given from you unless it was a health and safety accident. I would suggest you put all your concerns in writing as they have to write a written reply as it then a formal complaint and also contact ofsted.
good luck I'd be jumping . If the children had sissors they should have been supervised so it happened some how the nursery was obviously not supervising the children adquetly!!
suggest you try another nursery.

Same here. It's just not allowed.

dfh

willa wrote: »

So you are so robust that if someone walked up to you in the street and grabbed a big piece of your hair off and hacked it off clumsily (or did that to your child) and said "there was paint in it", that you would be OK with that?? Just brush it off as nothing?
Come on! The nursery didn't need to do it!

There was a reason why the nursery cut her hair.Because there was paint in it.I bet if they had sent her home with the paint the OP would have ranted at them for not doing anything.Looks like nothing makes people happy these days.

RobertoMoir

dfh wrote: »

There was a reason why the nursery cut her hair.Because there was paint in it.I bet if they had sent her home with the paint the OP would have ranted at them for not doing anything.Looks like nothing makes people happy these days.

Did you fail to read the part where they initially denied it, or do you think that being dishonest when the parents of a child ask about an incident which has obviously taken place is a good thing?

For me, their inability to be honest and open is at least as important as the specifics of the incident, given their legal obligation and duty of care to the children enrolled at the nursery.

neilmcl

dfh wrote: »

There was a reason why the nursery cut her hair.Because there was paint in it.I bet if they had sent her home with the paint the OP would have ranted at them for not doing anything.Looks like nothing makes people happy these days.

There was absolutely no reason to cut her hair, any water based paint could have been removed quite easily without reverting to this. Most parents wouldn't think twice if their youngsters come back from nursery with paint on them or on their clothes. You clearly don't have kids of your own.

willa

Ooh he said he does on another thread you know! *tweaking binoculars and ruffling notebook*

ChrisCobra

Hows the hangover dfh?

dfh

People seem to be hell bent on making a mountain out of a molehill.If the OP was unhappy then a complaint to the nursery would have sufficed.But to involve the police and waste police time is the real offence . We need to get our priorities right.

dfh

Legal obligation-duty of care-socialist clap trap new labour health and safety gone mad. we need less of such rubbish and a good whack of common sense.Thankfully we should get that next year when the tories come to power.

mazza1985

I work with vulnerable people, and the law clearly says that if somebody is not able to give informed consent, then it should be gained from the 'closest adult' eg parent, guardian, next of kin etc.

Children, are classed as vulnerable people, especially under the age of TWELVE as they cannot make an informed decision.

Cutting a childs hair is completely unacceptable. Attempting to wipe it out with baby wipes is also unacceptable. They should have rang the parent.

This is assault and abuse of a vulnerable person, well done to the police and the cps for actually doing something about it, its nice to see them get stuck in to a crime for once.

mrbrightside842

Brooker_Dave wrote: »

That's not what happened.

They were trying to help.

They weren't trying to help, they were trying to cover their mistake. If I got paint in my hair, I wouldn't try and get it out with a baby wipe, and then atmit defeat and cut it out. I doubt the nursery staff would do that to their own hair! They (a good nursery) would wait til mum came and say 'sorry she's got this in her hair, she'll need a bath tonight' and see how that would work and go from there. They shouldn't take the decision to cut it, badly, and then LIE and say they haven't when they obviously have! I have no idea why it would be acceptable for them to cut the child's hair without permission, when there are other options. If she'd got it wound into something when it could not be removed, fair enough, cut her free. But something that could be washed out, why cut it out?