Heaven Scent
16-09-2008, 01:39 PM
I'm not sure if I am putting this in the correct place put could do with some advice over something that came to light this morning - I'm having a day of it really - have another post in Full members area.
I mentioned in another post about having a call from a police station in another nearby town to say that someone had made a claim that I bumped into their car at one of the schools I collect from in the evenings - anyway between one thing and another they didn't have a leg to stand on and policee closed the case after just a few hours following several phone calls.
Well I was speaking to another Childminder at another playgroup I collect from at lunchtime all about it and she suggested I should report him to my insurance company. Then this morning when I dropped R off the other minder said she had some gossip for me and I was stunned by what she had said.
The playgroup is run by a lot of older women who are very nosey, bossy and set in their ways and one of these old biddies took my friend to one side and asked her what she was talking to me about she said she's overheard some of the conversation and said that since the case of Victoria Climbie it was her duty to know if any child is at risk and that if R had had an accident that wasn't reported while she was in my care then she needed to know about it.
I'm tempeted to write to the chairperson of the Committee and complain about this woman - surely if she has a worry about a child in our joint care then she should speak to me and the parents of the child -NOT another local childminder. What would you all do and if you would write or say anything who would you address it to and what would you say?
I just cannot believe the cheek of her - she needs to be stopped - How dare she gossip about me in this way. I want her to know that she is probably in breech of her settings confidentially and child protection policy by discussion and naming me and the child in that way and if she has a query regarding me or the child she should speak directly to me.
I admit I don't have much time to hang around talking when at the setting as I'm usually rushing to cook dinner or take another child to toddler group or whatever, buit she could make arrangements to speak to me at a convenient time.
All suggestions greatly appreciated.
I mentioned in another post about having a call from a police station in another nearby town to say that someone had made a claim that I bumped into their car at one of the schools I collect from in the evenings - anyway between one thing and another they didn't have a leg to stand on and policee closed the case after just a few hours following several phone calls.
Well I was speaking to another Childminder at another playgroup I collect from at lunchtime all about it and she suggested I should report him to my insurance company. Then this morning when I dropped R off the other minder said she had some gossip for me and I was stunned by what she had said.
The playgroup is run by a lot of older women who are very nosey, bossy and set in their ways and one of these old biddies took my friend to one side and asked her what she was talking to me about she said she's overheard some of the conversation and said that since the case of Victoria Climbie it was her duty to know if any child is at risk and that if R had had an accident that wasn't reported while she was in my care then she needed to know about it.
I'm tempeted to write to the chairperson of the Committee and complain about this woman - surely if she has a worry about a child in our joint care then she should speak to me and the parents of the child -NOT another local childminder. What would you all do and if you would write or say anything who would you address it to and what would you say?
I just cannot believe the cheek of her - she needs to be stopped - How dare she gossip about me in this way. I want her to know that she is probably in breech of her settings confidentially and child protection policy by discussion and naming me and the child in that way and if she has a query regarding me or the child she should speak directly to me.
I admit I don't have much time to hang around talking when at the setting as I'm usually rushing to cook dinner or take another child to toddler group or whatever, buit she could make arrangements to speak to me at a convenient time.
All suggestions greatly appreciated.