A mum is calling for answers after a school played down her five-year-old daughter's broken leg. Nicole Schofield from Cambridgeshire said she received a phone call from Nene and Ramnoth School saying her daughter Millie had fallen and hurt her leg at an after-school club on Wednesday, March 29.
Nicole got a taxi to the school where she found her daughter sitting on a chair - teachers told her she had tripped and had a lump on her leg. The mother of two claims she was told that staff trained in first aid checked her daughter and said she just needed to be taken home.
However, Nicole quickly realised once home that her daughter was in immense pain and was crying. According to CambridgeshireLive, he called an ambulance and an hour later they arrived and took her to hospital where it was confirmed that the five-year-old had broken her tibia, also known as the shin bone.
Nicole said she felt "physically sick" knowing her daughter had been in so much pain for more than an hour. She now wants answers as to why the school did not inform her of the severity of Millie's injury.
The mum claims her daughter told teachers her "leg cracked" when she fell and feels the choice to move her onto a chair may have made the injury worse. She also claims that a teacher knew Millie may have broken her leg.
Nicole told CambridgeshireLive a teacher had rang to tell the taxi driver they were bringing out a child with a possible broken leg but did not tell her this. She added that on the accident form filled out by the school they made no mention of a possible break.
Nicole said: "(Teachers) said first aid had a look and not seen anything so horrific that needs urgent medical attention and told me to take her home. Then I noticed the teacher running out to my taxi outside whilst we were still in the hall and I didn't think anything of it at the time. Teachers carried Millie out on school chairs to the car.
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"But the next day I was sitting there and I was thinking I wonder what that teacher said to the taxi driver. I called my taxi company and they gave me the driver's name and number who did our journey on Wednesday. I called him and he said a teacher told him 'we're bringing a little girl out now who it's highly likely she's possibly broken her leg'."
Nicole said she has been in contact with the school to try and find out what happened but to no avail. She has said until something is done she will not be sending Millie back to the Wisbech school as she does not trust them to care for her.
Nene and Ramnoth School has been approached for comment.
