How Much Supervision Is Required In Schools And Daycares?
Whether or not your child was adequately supervised at school or daycare will become a factor if your child is involved in an accident. Caregivers and teachers have a responsibility to provide proper supervision of your child and other children in their care. If this care is not provided, the daycare or school might be responsible for your child's injury.
Adequate Supervision
The daycare or school has a duty to provide your child with adequate supervision. Determining exactly what qualifies as adequate supervision depends on a variety of factors. For instance, a child with special needs would require more care than a child that does not have those same needs. A higher level of supervision might be required while out on field trips as opposed to within the classroom.
Unfortunately, there is not a set rule or law that offers guidelines on what should be considered adequate supervision. However, there are some factors which you and your personal injury attorney can rely on to decide whether or not you have a case against the school or daycare.
Possible Factors
Even though there is no set guideline for determining adequate supervision, you can use factors, such as the age of your child, to determine what is proper. For instance, a child that is five years of age would probably require more supervision than a teenager.
Other factors you can use is the child's maturity and what type of activity was being done at the time of the accident. For instance, if your child was playing football and suffered an injury, the possibility of an injury is real. Outside of teaching your child safety measures and ensuring he or she had the right equipment, it would be difficult to completely eliminate the possibility of injury.
Outside factors, such as being on the playground or on a field trip, can also play a role in determining if adequate supervision was present. For instance, the playground can be a more difficult environment to supervise than a classroom.
None of these factors excuses the daycare or school from properly supervising your child though. They merely help to establish whether or not the caregiver or teacher was being negligent.
For instance, if your child was fell off the monkey bars at school and suffered an injury, the teacher might not be liable. However, if the child left the class without permission, was not noticed, and then suffered an injury on the monkey bars, the school could be liable.
Your attorney can help determine just how much supervision should have been provided and whether or not you have a case. To learn more, contact a company like http://asmlegal.net/ for help.
