My daughter who is 6 had a best friend at nursery, he used to come to our house quite a lot for tea and whatnot, never wanted to go home.
I've just found out today that him and his siblings are being put up for adoption, as social services found bite marks on all the children (6, 3, 18 months old), knives and guns in their bedrooms, bruises on their backs, cat feaces all over the bedrooms, their cat gave birth in the baby's cot and they left it there and the baby was sleeping amongst the cat and bodily fluids.
I'm so shaken up by this, I really am. Just goes to show that you need to be really vigilant with safeguarding. I wasn't a Childminder then when he used to come over to my house, and I wonder that if I did safeguarding training beforehand would I have picked this up earlier than some other people and may have helped stop this abuse earlier?
Shame there are no safeguarding courses for parents to take
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