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6,000 pre-school kids hurt each year: report
Published: 2 Nov 11 08:42 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/37104/20111102/
Over 19,000 children attending pre-schools in Sweden 2008-2010 were injured so badly that they required emergency care, according to National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) figures.
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The most common cause of injury is falls, but there are also a large number of crushing and cutting injuries.
Furthermore the number of accidents reported at Swedish pre-schools would appear to be increasing.
In 2009 5,900 accidents occurred, which required treatment at a hospital emergency department. Since then, the numbers have increased steadily.
Figures from the National Agency for Education (Skolverket) show that groups are expanding within daycare providers, with 18 percent consisting of 21 or more children.
This can be compared with 2003 when the figure was 15 percent.
Staffing levels have at the same time declined. In 2006 there was an average of 5.1 children per pre-school staff member, compared to 5.4 in autumn 2010.
"Of course, group sizes and staffing levels have an impact on the safety of children in pre-school. The staff have a huge responsibility for children within the operation," said Ingegerd Johansson at the National Agency for Education.
According to Johansson's colleague Carina Hall, the trend towards increasingly large groups of pre-school children is "alarming" because group sizes and make up are a defining characteristic of quality.
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You are right. All Swedes are bullies and have mental issues. Hardly any children survive their education here.
You must leave Sweden immediately and return at once to the US, where you will be safe.
We will all miss reading your posts here on The Local forums, but that is the price we must pay for your safety. On behalf of The Local forum community, I wish you a hearty bon voyage. Don't waste your time posting your thanks, or indeed anything else here again. Taxi for GeoC!
GeoC please go back to America where your education system is so much better.. ;)
Many Swedes with mental issues? What about US? The country where you find the recommendation "not suitable for pets" in any microwave's instruction manual.
And I do not have any conflict of interest: I'm not from Sweden.
@GeoC
Sweden is the only best place on this planet where small children are well taken care of !!! Why did you come to Sweden.........
Other western countries are so pre occupied with litigation that they end up wrapping their kids in cotton wool so as to avoid any litigation when one of life's accidents happen.
This in effect breeds overweight neurotic unconfident adults.