I am a partner at the law firm Rowe Cohen, and recently I successfully defended a 100,000 claim against a childminder who had been accused of negligence. In this case an eight-year-old girl had fallen at the top of the stairs of the childminder's home and badly injured herself on a table.
I believe many childminders expect they will automatically be found at fault, irrespective of whether they're innocent.
People talk of a growing compensation culture, but just because someone has been accused of something doesn't mean they will automatically be found to blame because of the fact that it is a child who has been harmed rather than an adult.
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