worried about the children

lazy_girl

Mojisola wrote: »

I would phone social services and keep the call private. If you go through the teacher who mentions it in school, it could get passed around and you could have the outraged family on your doorstep.

If you don't want to mention it to the teacher that is fine, but information like this getting "passed around" by a teacher is a huge breach of confidentiality and child protection guidelines.

There is no reason why any parent at the school would find out, even the parents of the child might not be told about the concerns raised. If they are told, it wouldn't be the school that does it, it would be social services and they wouldn't tell them who contacted them either.

Racheldevon

You need to be phoning this through to Children & Young People's services, and the police (particularly when the incidents are happening). Yes, they might already know of the family, however each incident is another piece of the jigsaw, and provides more contextual evidence as tot he potential extent of the problem. If you go through the NSPCC this creates a delay potentially whilst the information is passed onto the local authority in your area, so best to go direct

nais

definatley go straight to social services as it will be acted on much more quickly than if you report it to school. teachers have to file lots of different types of reports etc before social services will act however an anonymous public concern will be dealt with asap

Mojisola

lazy_girl wrote: »

If you don't want to mention it to the teacher that is fine, but information like this getting "passed around" by a teacher is a huge breach of confidentiality and child protection guidelines.

Of course it is but could you guarantee that it wouldn't happen?

And if your personal safety might be at risk if you were identified, wouldn't you prefer to report it anonymously.?

nuttywoman

lazy_girl wrote: »

If you don't want to mention it to the teacher that is fine, but information like this getting "passed around" by a teacher is a huge breach of confidentiality and child protection guidelines.

There is no reason why any parent at the school would find out, even the parents of the child might not be told about the concerns raised. If they are told, it wouldn't be the school that does it, it would be social services and they wouldn't tell them who contacted them either.

I once rang a local school up about concerns i had about a child. I told them i did`nt want my name getting out cos the step father was a nutter. They acted on it and i had no come back .