"Toddler trapped in metal box at nursery" - sorry, really awful story!

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Can't believe this still happens and the nursery wasn't shut down.

Holy crap

Those poor parents and that darling boy.

WTF is happening to our country where people not only don't look after a child properly, but they lie about it?

Custy - you okay? That is the second thing I have read from you today.

yeah, they can be hired for storage. never heard of a nursery doing it tho...

Our junior school has one.

Ofsted require you to have so many resources, toys, equipment etc that small premises often don't have the space to store them! It is scary inside. The PTA stuff was stored in ours and one day the door swung shut with us inside. Pitch black and very scary. Poor boy

I can see how it could happen, although at it being open while the children were outside.

The worse thing is the assumption he had been collected. They need to get a proper procedure in place asap.

Thats awful, the poor child.

Custy, it was pitch black in there!

DS's nursery counted every child out of the nursery building when they went out to play, adn every child back in again.

If they didn't learn anything else at nursery, they all knew how to count to 20 when they left!

The poor, poor family!

Its appalling, and the fact that they lied about him being collected, that's equally outrageous.

i bet he won't do it again!

Very OTT to shout for closure of nursery! How is putting all the staff out of work and closing the business going to rewind the clock or stop it happening again??? They should have to put new procedures in place so it won't happen agin.

The real world isn't perfect, and people are not robots!!!

I take it you would be happy to put your child in a nursery like this one.

Personally, I would have removed my child without blinking. The point is, they didn't even know he was missing. The kid was in that dark box for 2 hours and as a result, he's having nightmares.

snurk at custy (she is very funny at the moment)

yes awful, yes upsetting but things like this happen unfortunatly-hate the evening standard-tis shit

Agree that I would remove my child. Ben could have been anywhere in those 2 hours. I need to know my child is 100% safe and well cared for (and hopefully happy) when I'm at work.

And you know what, the nursery would now have a bad reputation anyway and I'm sure parents would start removing their kids.

So they may end up closing or another person taking over.
This happened to a playscheme at my work - they left a child at the park and didn't know he went missing. In the end they had to close it and another company took over.

I spend my life counting kids in and out and they are mine!

Poor kid must have been terrified, shut in complete darkness for two hours with no-body coming to find him. Bloody hell.

TeacherSaySo, weird view you have. "People are not robots"

How does that justify saying that the boy had been collected by his father??????

Lying about it makes it unforgivable in my book. They were trying to cover up the fact that they had no idea where the toddler was.

Yes its the what ifs.

What if the mother had arrived on her own and genuinely believed that her dh had picked up the child? And then left?

The boy could have been trapped for much much longer

This is terrible - it really is your worst nightmare when you entrust others with your kids! I heard a story about a kindergarten in Brussels where a guy walked into the playground and took half a dozen LO's round to a shop to buy sweets. It was 20 mins before anyone noticed they were missing. Turns out that the guy was a bit simple and just liked kids (in a non sordid way) rather than anything more sinister but it made my blood run cold! Fortunately my dd's kindergarten is completely enclosed and has cc TV but still.....