nursery cut our daughters hair, update on page 9

Louby-Lou_2

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.

pulliptears

emg wrote: »

I once visited a nursery where the children had a real hammer and nails to play with. Apparently, its not even that unusual!

Back yonder when I was a kid, I had a brilliant set for christmas that was a cork board, wooden pieces, nails and a hammer. I loved it! I reckon I was probably 3 or 4 at the time.

I do agree that in a nursery environment where a child cant be watched every second is a bad idea, but in the home I have no problems with a well supervised small person hammering a few nails into a lump of wood.

hollydays

emg wrote: »

I once visited a nursery where the children had a real hammer and nails to play with. Apparently, its not even that unusual!

When my son was small,a long time ago,his pre-school did this!!

Those metal tape measures are lethal though.

Louby-Lou_2

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 and could be seen as abuse.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.

oops only read the first page glad they owned up to it , to work with the children they would have had to had been trained and they should know this you go and get answers all the way .

Louby-Lou_2

forgot to say they should have been using paint which was non tonic and washes out ????

Becles

pulliptears wrote: »

Back yonder when I was a kid, I had a brilliant set for christmas that was a cork board, wooden pieces, nails and a hammer. I loved it! I reckon I was probably 3 or 4 at the time.

My brother had one of those! My Mam was less than impressed when she discovered he'd nailed all the pieces onto his bedroom windowsill :rotfl:

augustsmummy

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.

I work with children, and it does apply to children, and all voulnerable people. (I am a nurse) we have to either have the consent of the parents or the person with parental responsibility. It is classed as abuse if we do anything without consent, that includes taking temperatures and checking pulses, and we certainly wouldn't cut hair or nails.

When I was about 15 I needed my hair cut at school (as some "nice" person had put chewing gum in my hair) and the teacher got me to sign a form saying I consented to her cutting the gum out, and she got it witnessed by another teacher. She was still not happy about doing it, but I begged her to.
I think it is disgusting that they did this to your child, they could have easilyleft it until you got there to ask you what you wanted to do. I would be absolutely fuming if anyone cut DDs hair without asking me first, unless it was life and death (which in this case it certainly wasn't!).

trinidadone

this is clearly unacceptable. I agree, pull your little one out, some people have posted that if she is settled, you would do more harm, however i am sure you would not have a good time day after day if she was there.

this should be addressed to the Nursery Manager right away. either meet with her/him, or write a letter. If your unhappy request a copy of there complaints policy, or contact OFSTED.

Totally unacceptable

Muppet20009

Wow, sounds like a unsafe place for a child to be!!

I think cutting the hair off would constitute actual bodily harm - There has actually been a similar case in regards to hair being cut off without consent. (Director of Public Prosecutions v Smith) .

bingo_bango

Link to DPP V Smith

There is your case on a plate methinks. S19 of that document also covers the fact that putting paint in the hair can constitue assault occasioning ABH.

The police are spot on to chase this up.