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.
Hepatitis-A outbreak in Cardiff Schools
Posted: 11 October 2014
Posted in: Public Place Accidents, School Accidents
Three children in Cardiff have been diagnosed with Hepatitis A over the last week, despite having all gone to different schools. Public Health Wales is currently investigating the outbreak with concerns that others could potentially be affected. Health officials believe that one of the infected children contracted the virus outside of the UK. Hepatitis A is initially caused by an infection in the liver, causing severe fatigue, nausea, abdominal pain, headaches and fever. The virus is excreted in faeces, which is then spread through contamination, e.g. through food and water.…
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£800k compensation to schoolchildren
Posted: 18 July 2014
Posted in: Car Accidents, Finger Injuries, Foot Injuries, Head & Brain Injuries, Public Place Accidents, School Accidents
New figures have revealed that in the last five years the local authorities in Wales have paid out more than £800,000 in compensation to injured schoolchildren and legal fees. Successful claimants included one child with a severed thumb, and another that was knocked down by a vehicle driven by a teacher. The amount paid by the councils over the last five academic years amounted to £811,834.86, covering both the cost of damages and legal fees. One council – Neath Port Talbot – paid out a total of £309,535, with one…
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Payouts to teachers at all time high
Posted: 27 April 2014
Posted in: Arm Injury, Head & Brain Injuries, Neck Injuries, School Accidents, Workplace Injuries, Workplace Slip
New figures have revealed that in the last year alone, teachers have been awarded tens of millions of pounds in compensation for accidents at work. The figures found there to have been a great increase in payouts to school staff, with the total reaching a record level. Information produced by three of the UK’s largest unions showed that school staff were being awarded five or six-figure payouts, which totaled more than £40 million last year. The UK’s largest teachers’ union, NASUWT, said that they had secured 30% more compensation for…
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Wales sees £800,000 worth of compensation claims for school injuries
Posted: 12 September 2013
Posted in: Hip Injuries, Public Place Accidents, School Accidents
Recent figures have revealed that during the last five years, Wales has handed out over £800,000 worth of compensation to the families’ of children that have sustained injuries at school. With claims ranging from children being pushed into windows (one pupil received a £10,500 payout), to hot food splashing onto pupils (one pupil received compensation of £1,000), the Conservatives’ shadow education minister Angela Burns argues that the compensation culture must stop. Although many of the claims are related to serious injuries, many are purely “ridiculous”, with the clear motive of…
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Asbestos worker dies on last day of work at site
Posted: 6 August 2013
Posted in: Asbestos Exposure, School Accidents, Workplace Injuries, Wrongful & Accidental Death
James Paul (26) from Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent, died on his last day of work at a school where he had been removing asbestos, his family said. He was electrocuted when working in a suspended ceiling space at Cwmcarn High School on the 19th of July. It is believed that Mr Paul suffered cardiac arrest due to the electrocution, Gwent Coroner David Bowen heard. Mr Paul was due to be married next year to his fiancé Emily Rogers (20), together with whom he had a toddler son, Kingsley. A statement conveyed…
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