AIBU to think that a stranger collecting a baby from a nursery is a massive safeguarding issue?

Nope ...no such crime as "criminal negligence "

....and now do you see why the Grandads name is being protected??

It isn't child abduction ...that would need mens rea (an intention) and wouldn't have been facilitated by the people who had a duty of care for the child 🤦‍♀️

this can be the next specsavers ad !

seriously its an ofsted issue and they would be in serious trouble if grandads name and address were handed out as casually as they hand out kids !

you are over invested in a strsnger on the internet

step back and let the professionals handle it

Criminal negligence is absolutely a crime.
Not abiding by the vast safeguarding that nurseries are held to by ofsted is negligence.

There are so many safety precautions in place in nurseries to remove a child and clearly this nursery followed non of their own protocol.

The story is all over the media. The nursery has made a formal apology. Ofsted is investigating. Jeez, the grandfather! Jeez, the nursery staff! I’m not easily shocked these days but how in the name of whatever did this happen?

The police can't investigate because it isn't a crime.
It was a shocking mistake and I would be uneasy if my child was there but it is not a crime.

The first port of call shluld be taking the grandfather fir an eye test. Especially if hes still driving.

Probably got back home and Grandma noticed! Really seems very remiss .As a former Nursery Teacher cant believe this has happened .Strict passwords ,photos and so on .Hopefully they will tighten up their rules on collecting children from now on!

A huge number of the population have facial blindness. I'll post the stats. The fault lies with the nursery not having proper systems to safeguard the children.

"Face blindness (prosopagnosia) affects approximately 1 in 50 people (2% to 2.5% of the population). In the UK, this equates to roughly 1.2 to 1.5 million people, including an estimated 300,000 children, making it more common than autism yet frequently undiagnosed."

So it's entirely possible this Grandad made an innocent mistake..child spends time talking in his company and he realises

But that's for the nursery to do.

Your anger should be directed at the nursery for deflecting and not answering questions, assuming they've not spoken to the parents in detail.

The GF will be mortified that he's made a genuine mistake, embarrassed he took a child that wasn't his grandchild and potentially fearful as people are easily and freely labelling him a potential danger to children when he was being a normal GF helping out his DC.

I would immediately pull my child from that nursery and find another one!

Presumably the grandfather is the grandfather of another child in the nursery. If he was an opportunistic paedophile I don't think he would have returned the child.

The nursery made a huge mistake, and if the staff handed the child to him he will have initially assumed it was the right child, they may look quite alike, but he obviously doesn't know his GD very well or has poor vision or both. He may not be an absolute stranger he may be known to the nursery if he picks up his GD once in a while.

You have no business trashing another business on the say so of a Stranger you follow on instagram

i have reported your post for legal reason's

It’s 100% the grandfathers fault that he couldn’t recognise his own grandchild. 100%. He carried that child awake around the nursery for 10 minutes before leaving and didn’t notice. 10 minutes! He wasn’t given a sleeping child. She was awake. CCTV proved this. This is on him as much as the nursery

but this grandad needs to be left alone he brought the child back the minute he realised.
It’s odd that people are intent on claiming this to be true without any information though. Why are you insisting be brought the child back the minute he realised?

He has as much reason to be angry with nursery for putting him in this position.
Could he not have looked at the child he was taking during the 10 minutes he had her before removing her from the setting? He’s hardly absolved of responsibility here.

I can see how it could happen if both girls, say, had long blonde hair and were wearing the same/similar clothes. My DD and her best friend looked like twins - I was always asked if I had them both out with me together.
Not that that makes it ok though.

Fortunately no harm was done, but the nursery needs a process to stop it from ever happening again.

He couldn’t recognise his own grandchild and took one that wasn’t his! He had no business collecting a child if he didn’t know what they looked like. And the nursery workers should be arrested for allowing him to take her

It's not the grandfather's fault he was handed the wrong child. It's absolutely not fair that he should have his identity disclosed, or be forced to meet the parents. If I was in his position, I certainly wouldn't participate unless compelled to do so by a judge.

A grandad who can’t recognise his own grandchild at best. Yeah I am judging the man

He was given the wrong child!

The poor man! Op is clearly angling that he's a paedophile. This is on the nursery, not the Grandad.

Child abduction