Mom angered no first aid kit at Langley play centre

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LANGLEY (NEWS1130) – A Cloverdale mother is warning parents about indoor play centres for kids.

Kate Forman’s 11-year-old son Owen broke his foot when he fell off a trampoline at Go Bananas, during a birthday party last week.

She says when she asked staff members to help, she didn’t get much. “Do you have anybody here trained in first aid,” she recalls asking staff. “No, we don’t do anything like that; we don’t have anybody here trained that has first aid. It’s the parents’ responsibility,” she was told.

There wasn’t a first aid kit at the centre either, something she brought up with the Fraser Health Authority.

“They weren’t legally required to have a first aid kit,” she learned, but she was promised someone from Fraser Health would talk to the people at the centre and recommend they have one on the premises.

Kate admits she signed a waiver before she went inside, taking responsibility for Owen’s safety.

Owen is going to be okay, but his foot is in a cast so he has to miss soccer tryouts this week.

Helen, who works at Go Bananas, says it was a misunderstanding. “I transferred over from the Surrey location last year, in September, and there’s always been a first aid kit here,” she notes.

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