Boy, 4, left behind at Scottish Deer Centre after nursery trip
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyxx511l695o
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Boy, 4, left behind at Scottish Deer Centre after nursery trip
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyxx511l695o
Posted by worldinsidemyanus
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If you ever feel like you are shit at your job, you can rest assured that you are not as shit at it as these people are at theirs. 9 children to 3 adults, and they still left a children behind. Absolute simpletons.
I hope all the parent’s pull their kids out of this nursery.
“Ms McLean added that policies and procedures would be reviewed to see where improvements could be made.”
folllowing the ones in place allready?
“they asked the wee ones on the bus ‘is everyone here’ and they shouted ‘yes’ so they left. They didn’t bother to count them.”
Isn’t this literally a Simpsons joke?
Sadly nurseries are also in the category of it being a very tough job but pays absolute shit, to the point some nurseries are desperate to hire.
Wasn’t a big deal when then PM David Cameron left his kid in a pub so no reason to get upset now.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/18392541
This honestly makes me so sad thinking about him realising no one was there anymore and getting scared- that detail about him just standing and crying until someone found him breaks my heart but in a way it’s good he did that rather than getting lost trying to find them because anything could’ve gone so horribly wrong when you think about an unattended child of that age.
“Last year BBC Scotland News revealed that there had been a concerning rise in reported incidents of children leaving Scotland’s early years centres unaccompanied. Data for 2022/2023 showed two children a week, on average, went missing either from nursery or while on trips.”
On average two a week? just in Scotland? That’s incredible.
I do a headcount when we go from the school to the bus.
I do a headcount as they get on the bus.
I do a headcount when they’re on the bus.
I do a headcount before we get off the bus.
I do a headcount when we’re off the bus.
I do a headcount every time we enter a new area.
I do a headcount before we exit an area.
I do a headcount before we get back on the bus, a headcount as they’re getting on, and a headcount when they’re in their seats.
And we don’t fucking go if we don’t have the right number.
I’m constantly doing fucking headcounts. And I teach 11-18 year olds. I cannot fathom how you cannot count to nine when you have little ones to look after.
Three to one and they still fucked up.
On a positive note. That child has better drip than me.
Hope the member of staff who found him at least let the little fella spend some more time with the deers while he waited. Gotta make the best out of a poor situation
An INCREDIBLY similar thing happened at my child’s daycare in Germany. They used to take their 8-10 kids (aged 1-3) out for walks every day. When my daughter was new, they had me accompany them as a transition thing. They would put the smaller children in a quad buggy, but the buffet ones would be running ahead and peeking over the bank of a large, fast running stream. 😬 It made me so nervous but it just seemed to be the way things were done there to give kids a ton of independence as soon as possible. Then one day they were walking through the town and a little boy slipped away and ran back across the road and no one noticed. They got back to the daycare and still no one noticed. Only when his mother came to collect him a couple of hours later did anyone realise he wasn’t there. Turns out he’d been picked up by the police pretty quickly but they had no way of finding out whose child he was until someone reported him missing, so he was okay and quickly reunited with his mum once they figured out what had happened. But what really shook me was how there was nothing like this–no investigation, no recriminations, no news articles. We didn’t even find out about it for months, until the owner put an apologetic note on the door explaining what had happened and how they would not let it happen again.
This poor kid 🙁 aren’t you supposed to be obsessive about head counts in this line of work? I did work experience in a nursery as a 15 year old and even at that age I was panicking about head counts during a trip to Santa’s grotto!
He could have wondered away onto a road and been killed. Somebody just getting fired for this has got off lightly.
This is absolutely genuine, happened to me a long time ago when I was a station supervisor on the railway. I won’t identify dates or location because it might identify me and, well, I’d rather not be identified even though the train company involved no longer exists.
Train arrives at ‘my’ station.
People get off, people get on.
Train leaves station.
Train gets to end of its journey (a rural station) about 30 minutes later.
Everyone gets off.
Train now empty.
Except…
In the wheelchair space is a buggy with a toddler asleep.
Oh shit.
The traincrew agree with operational control and the nearest local supervisor (me!) that they’ll bring the child back to our station as it’s the first place with staff where the kid can be looked after.
I call out managers, BT police, ambulance, whoever I can think of because WTF do you do with an abandoned toddler?
The train arrives back after another half an hour and is met by me, BT Police, local police and a paramedic (just to check the kid’s alive). The kid’s now awake, seems totally unfazed by all these strange people but is quite happy to be given a teddy by the paramedic.
Some time later, a good two hours after the train originally left, customer services phone me with “Got a weird one for you, woman on the phone claiming she’s left her kid on a train at yours?” Oh, yes, she most definitely has. Tell her to get the **** here right ****ing now.
She eventually rolls up another hour or so later, totally unconcerned, no urgency, no interest. Utterly confused as to why everyone is so completely outraged by her behaviour.
Not on drugs, not drunk, no disabilities, no medical issues, no excuses whatsoever. Just didn’t give a toss about her kid.
Local police said they’d spoken to the on-call social services person who just wasn’t interested, so in the end nothing happened, and the BTP sergeant said it wasn’t the first time they’d seen something like that and no doubt wouldn’t be the last.
Couldn’t make it up. 🙁
This never would have happened to a Non-Ginger kid. Ginger Rights Movement! ✊️🥕