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Head Injury Suffered by Toddler on Concrete Ground in Mid-Winter

For an outline of key facts read our article: Nelson’s fall: Parents still don’t know how their toddler hit his head on concrete and had a brain injury at childcare

We’ve reviewed the centre manager’s report of the incident, Ministry of Education communications, Worksafe report, and lawyer correspondence. The learning we’ve taken is:

Don’t take children outside until the outdoor playground safety check is completed and ticked/signed.

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minimum licensing standards breached as this shows adult-sized furniture from which a child could fall

Toddler died following a short distance fall, possibly from an adult-sized chair

The death of 20-month-old Lorenzo was due, in the opinion of the pathologist, to traumatic brain injury following a short distance fall with head impact.

In our opinion the tragedy was avoidable. There were several clear and serious failures in Lorenzo’s care before and after his accident.

We hope that the sector will learn from this tra

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SUDI – Death of an Infant when Sleeping

Sleep in ECE and Reducing the Risk of (SUDI): Learnings and What’s Legally Required versus Best Practice.

For years, the OECE’s chief advisor Dr Sarah Alexander has feared that a child would die from sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI) in an early childhood education (ECE) setting. Now that has happened: An infant died from SUDI while

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A Tree Fell at a Centre and WorkSafe and MoE Heard It

A tree fell on children in an early childhood centre and for the first time ever Worksafe prosecuted an ECE service.

Four children and one adult were injured. 

The most fundamental practice change to be made is that every day the service provider and all adults responsible need to assume that something could go wrong. Don’t take a

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Toddler Left in Car Seat Died

Unexplained absence.

A 16-month-old was found dead after his mum went to work, accidentally leaving him sleeping in his car seat in her car parked at work. She had not realised he was still in the car and had forgotten to drop him at the early childhood centre. Tragically the toddler died from heatstroke.  There can be other situations t

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Kindergarten Girl on Slide Nearly Died From Strangulation

Slide safety.

UPDATE: Another case of strangulation showing that lessons have not yet been learnt. A child died in 2016 at Angels Childcare in Auckland due to strangulation on a slide.

An Opinion article on Slide Safety

By Dr Sarah Alexander September 1, 2010.

The mother of a young girl nearly strangled after being caught in a rope

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