Hi Rich A lo of educational establishments I have encountered record accidents were an injury results from this and the minor fall from youngsters etc as a learning experience of which is recorded in a book (not accident book) but a red and black type book and information made available to parents otherwise they would have ended up with silly amounts. Regards Karel

I would record bites as this is behavioural and technically an assault. Wouldn't take any other action than advising parents, following nursery procedures on behaviour and bullying.

Saw this the other day in the Metro, interesting for educational organisations!! http://www.metro.co.uk/n...ts-from-school-accidents

Is biting to be expected???? Obviously I must have had a different childhood and raised my two childern differently because in no way in my life has biting by kids been expected or tolerated. But agree with others that making an incident report everytime a kid wobbles and falls would seem a little excessive and not something I have encountered in the nurseries I have had as clients.

I tend to agree more with Clairel than Ron on this one. I think 'bullying' can be identified in 2-3 yeard olds and I too believe that biting is not the norm. If the kids are told early enough and educated correctly as to what is acceptable then hopefully they won't progress to full blown bullies. Turning a blind eye and stating 'that's what kids do' is a step down a dangerous road in my opinion. Maybe I just believe in old fashioned values, but it didn't do me any harm and my 5 year old son certainly seems to know the rights and wrongs even at his formative years. As a parent I would not expect to be told if he had fallen over whilst at nursery but if he was bitten then I would.

I agree with Jane! No one is saying turn a blind eye Grim or saying that biting is acceptable but it is a behaviour that can be expected from a two year old at some point. Hopefully that biting period is extremely short lived but is not what you would call exceptionally rare behaviour.

Quite a patronising post that Jane. As I said I have raised 2 children myself and so I am perfectly well aware of kids wierd behaviour at times (although head banging again seems a bit out of the ordinary to me). I also never said that kids that bite will necessarily grow up into abusive adults (although I have known one who did). However, I would not say that biting is a phase that kids can be expected to go through. The only kids I knew that bit (including one of my nephews) were poorly disciplined kids. But there's that word discipline, which is a naughty word nowadays, which some will now probably interpret as me diplaying violence or something, which it doesn't, it means setting boundaries. I like grim have old fashioned views about parenting. But discussing views on parenting will lead nowhere but trouble as we all have our own passionate views. So going back to the subject of reporting everyone..... (by the way if the bite breaks the skin remember that the human bite can lead to serious infection and so the child will need proper medical attention)

Back to the reporting question. Surely the enforcing authorities and inspectors, including OFSTED would expect that these kind of minor incidents and injuries occur. I would not like to go down the route of not recording minor injuries just because it may make the organisation look bad. We use accident records to identify trends, such as an increase of biting, children falling or getting injured in one place etc, and these trends need to be assessed and controls put in place.