BBC investigation finds scores of safeguarding complaints at after-school clubs
Dozens of allegations of safeguarding failures in after-school clubs - including assaults, neglect and sexual abuse - have been revealed by BBC News.
BBC News has learned of 84 safeguarding referrals made about incidents at after-school clubs in the past five years in England and Wales from freedom of information requests to local authorities. A staff member said: "I am not cleaning her, she is your sister, you clean her," according to the mother. The consultant told the mother the incident was "unacceptable" and concluded that the care received by the two children "fell far below" expectations.
The mother of the two siblings said it was difficult for parents to know about the quality of safeguarding in after-school clubs.Greenleaf Primary School, which was responsible for the club where the boy was made to clean his sister, said: "We have apologised unreservedly to the parent of the children involved and more widely to all users of the Greenleaf After School Club.
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