This is totally off topic but I feel I know you guys

Right here's my story;
My 5 year old was at school and another group in her class were making jelly.

Her foot got scalded by boiling water from a kettle when she caught her school bag on the kettle flex.

The kettle I am told was on a low shelf and not on a worktop , which was "barricaded" in with furniture (tables , easel etc...)which she still managed to get past.

She was seen to by first aider (cold water) and an ambulance was called. She was taken to A&E where tey gave her oral morphine for the pain and her wound was dressed. She has missed a week of school so far.

Beforhand a risk assesment was done by the person who was conducting the activity.

After the accident they called in a Health & Safety person to assess the area - which , apparently , he deemed it to be safe?! even though the kettle was ungarded by staff (they were concentrating on holding the jelly mix which the children were stirring) and still accessable by the children.

Basically they are making out everything was safe when it can't have been otherwise this wouldn't have happened in the first place.

What can I do to stop this from happening again as they are making out that they had taken all the precautions they could have done , which I don't think they have.

What's more they are going to keep on making jelly with hte children.

Do I have a leg to stand on?? :0(

Again - I know it's off topic but I am worried sick about even sending her back when she's healed incase something else even worse happens

Hi there,

We are doing OK.

It happened on Monday , unfortunately when her foot was last dressed on Thursday a string of blisters had come up where the edge of her shoe was - the water must have sort of collected there , luckily it's not infected. She's having it dressed again on Tuesday so I will see what it's like then.

We have cut out a section of one of her soft shoes so that she is able to go outside so I don't have to carry her now.

The teacher came round on Friday to bring a card the class had made.............but I wish she hadn't now. I asked again about what happened , I told her that I am not blaming her personally but something should be done to prevent this happening again , and that I don't think children should be using boiling water at such a young age - I won't let her make jelly at home one to one , we do cookies and cakes and she helps me get ingredients out for tea etc... she got totally defensive , she said they had done it like that for years and didn't think it should be stopped , and then she actually walked off which really suprised me as she is the deputy-head so I thought she would have lots of experience communicating with people - just goes to show , you never can tell.

I'm going to see the head mistress next week so maybe it will be easier to sort things out.

I know that if they don't change anything I will be taking my daughter out of school when they are doing the jelly - I just hope I don't get penalised by the truancy police!

This has put so much stress on me at the moment I'm completely anx all the time and I'm having to work so hard to keep the PAs from happening cos I know if I have one everything else will just crumble as it's already going downhill.

I'm praying that it will be sorted by christmas as I want my family to enjoy it.

Thanks for being there - it means a lot.