Pages On: School Accidents
Schools need to be safe places for children and adults alike. But accidents in schools are far more common than you might expect. A lot of press considers the pursuit against schools for injury compensation to be the scourge of “compensation culture”. However, schools have a duty of care to protect their pupils, and as such they are liable for injuries. Most claimants will sue a school if the injuries were serious and clearly not at fault for them. They are also workplaces, and have some of the highest rates of work accidents of all other sectors. As such, a teacher, or other staff, injured in a school could seek employer negligence compensation. If you’ve suffered an accident in a school, and you’re not at fault, you may be entitled to compensation.
Schools payout £1.5m in injury compensation
Posted: 30 September 2014
Posted in: Finger Injuries, Public Place Accidents, School Accidents
Over the last five years alone, Greater Manchester schools have paid out £1.5million in compensation to injured school children. With the majority of accidents stemming from ‘basic health and safety failings’, health and safety consultants argue that not enough is being done to protect children in schools. Accidents ranged from children being hit by falling goal posts to fingers being trapped in broken gates. Across Greater Manchester there was a total of 255 successful personal injury claims, more claims than Birmingham and Greater London put together. Of the ten boroughs in Greater…
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5-year-old receives compensation for nursery injury
Posted: 15 March 2014
Posted in: Finger Injuries, Personal Injury, Public Place Accidents, School Accidents
A 5-year-old girl has been awarded with compensation after getting her finger trapped in a door at nursery when she was just 8-months-old. Mackenzie Miller, from Amble, got her finger caught in a fire door at Brambles Childcare Centre in 2009. A judge at Morpeth County Court ruled that the nursery had a duty of care, and ordered them to compensate the young girl for her injury. Mackenzie has been left with a deformed finger as a result of the accident. Mackenzie had been following a teacher through the fire door when…
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School injury claims at an all-time high
Posted: 9 March 2014
Posted in: Finger Injuries, Public Place Accidents, School Accidents
Over the last year alone, Bradford Council has seen personal injury claims concerning injured pupils almost double. With claims ranging from children tripping over chairs to children being hit by a swinging school bell, Bradford Council has been bombarded by claims in the past financial year. One teaching union said that the figures were a reflection of our “compensation culture”. 2012/13 saw 25 claims being made against the local authority, yet none of which actually led to payouts. The figures were released as a result of a request under the Freedom of…
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