to ask DS's nursery to change their locks?

[2point4kids]

Just wanted to check if I am overreacting about this before I go in and say something to them next week....

DS is 2.6. He is very active and is a bit of a runner off.
He goes to nursery 3 afternoons a week. He enjoys it, they seem great and I am happy with them in general.

He is in the toddler room which is a downstairs room. They have a bolt on the top of the door, which is fine.
At the end of each day (about 5pm) there are less children left in each room, so they tend to send all the children in the toddler room upstairs to join the baby room so that some of the staff can go home.

In the baby room upstairs they have a wooden gate at the top of the stairs which has a catch on it (a bit like the type of catch you would have on a garden gate) plus they have an hook on a chain that is always looped into the catch so to get out the gate you have to un hook the hook and then open the catch.
At the bottom of the stairs is the main door to the street outside. This has a normal handle plus another higher up catch that you turn the opposite way.

When I collected DS from nursery last week, he ran out of the room ahead of me and proceeded to open the gate at the top of the stairs himself without too much trouble, scooted down the stairs and then opened the front door very easily.

Now I know he is only in the upstairs room for half an hour a day, and I know that the combination of 4 locks/catches would stop 99% of children in their tracks... BUT I still want to ask them to put something else in that DS cant get out of!
I'm sure they watch the children very carefully and DS probably wouldnt try to run away in that short time span as he is normally busy playing.... but I just think that if something were to happen and they were to take their eyes off him for just 2 mins and he did decide to try and make a run for it that its not worth the risk.
I was lying awake last night worrying about it, so I know I have to say something!

Do you think I am unreasonable to ask them to shell out to get their locks updated??

[doggiesayswoof]

imo the outside door at least should be totally childproof - YANBU

There must be some guidelines or regs about this sort of thing? If so, it wouldn't just be your opinion.

[2point4kids]

The outside door is one of those that has a buzzer outside and cctv so that the staff upstairs can buzz the parents in... so i think it will be a problem for them to put a bolt on it...
I am sure they could put a better lock on the gates though..

[DrNortherner]

YANBU. Tell them your ds opened all locks very easily. You need to warn them.

Tell them in a way that you want to prebent anything terrible happenning.

[doggiesayswoof]

The outside door sounds the same as the one at dd's nursery - the handle is too high for kids to reach it. Doesn't have a bolt, but a child could not get out without getting something to stand on.

I can't see why they would put the handle within a child's reach.