Nursery World - Low value put on heroic Lisa

The blighted childcare career of Lisa Potts was valued at less than 29,000 by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) last week. The former nursery nurse had to wait more than four years to hear that the CICA had awarded her 750 for partial loss of grip in one hand and 250 for the permanent scars she carries as a result of blows to her back, head, hands and arms when shielding the children in her care from a man wielding a machete. She was also awarded 20,000 for her ongoing post-traumatic stress and 28,784 as the value placed on her work and loss of future employment as a nursery nurse - a total of 49,784.

The former nursery nurse had to wait more than four years to hear that the CICA had awarded her 750 for partial loss of grip in one hand and 250 for the permanent scars she carries as a result of blows to her back, head, hands and arms when shielding the children in her care from a man wielding a machete. She was also awarded 20,000 for her ongoing post-traumatic stress and 28,784 as the value placed on her work and loss of future employment as a nursery nurse - a total of 49,784.

Miss Potts received severe injuries in July 1996 when a man broke into St Luke's Church of England School in Wolverhampton and went berserk with a machete as she and the children were having a teddy bears' picnic. Under CICA's current tariff system she could claim for only three injuries, even though she received 11 injuries during the attack. For the first injury she got 100 per cent of the claim, the second ten per cent and the third five per cent.

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