Aussie Childcare Network Forum

I am asking something based on what I have seen from a child that goes to the extreme-extreme end of aggressive behaviour. Firstly, the child tries to claw other children in the face (whatever the set-off), refuses to toilet to the point that every day the child will poo in their pants and will try to bite, claw, scratch staff when they ask her to go and so far hasn't been responding with any positive strategies/rewards for going to the toilet. From what I have seen, the other educators are doing the best they can, trying out every strategy and behaviour management they can. Going over 3 weeks of major incidences, when a staff member tried to talk to the child on their level, she raked her nails over the staff members face so badly there were deep red cuts flowing from forehead to bottom cheek. She bit a child hard enough to draw blood (this sounds bad, but we had to hold her nose to pry her off the other child. She literally just sunk her teeth into the other child's flesh) and the other day as an educator asked her not to swing around the large wooden blocks, she smacked the wooden block into the educator's face on purpose and broke their nose. Because her parents are blaming us usually and hardly have done anything to address this behaviour (though are quiet after the last incident), can they legally be told for the safety of the children and staff, that their child cannot attend the centre?

They are going to have a meeting from what I have heard and have made a report to DOCS actually because the behaviour is so abnormal. Honesty though, it isn't the child's fault. Such behaviour has been learned from somewhere (home most likely) and not being curbed or something violence is happening at home. I suspect domestic violence from the type of language coming out of the child's mouth so we will see how it goes from there.