An eight-year-old boy was left alone at a school for up to three hours when school holiday program co-ordinators charged with his care accidentally abandoned him while taking a group of students on an excursion.

The child was on a program run by Team Kids at Dingley Village Primary when he was left behind at the campus for between one and three hours on Wednesday last week.

A Team Kids staff member realised a head count had not been carried out and that a child had been left behind. The staff member returned to the school, where they found him lying on the grass. The child was not distressed…