*TRIGGER WARNING** - upsetting news article about 9month old death at nursery

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https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/18/baby-told-stop-whingeing-alleged-killer-stockport-nursery

i am so appalled to read this
i cant imagine what the poor parents are going through but it’s making me very fearful to leave my son at nursery (he’s 10months and I have to go back to work soon).

my heart breaks
RIP GENEVIEVE 🤍

This is awful. My colleague’s child went to this nursery (although wasn’t in on the day this occurred) and so I was aware a baby girl had died whilst asleep on a beanbag but I had assumed that she had suffocated due to it not being a suitable place to sleep and that it was an awful accident caused by negligence on the staff’s part. To hear that cruelty was involved is just heartbreaking.

There's another thread about this on here if you search Kate Roughey. The news articles on the thread give much more detail than the guardian one. That poor baby was seen thrashing about face down on a bean bag for a significant amount of time and the nursery worker threw a blanket over her head. It wasn't negligence it was absolutely murder.

She must have strapped that poor baby very tightly as she was old enough to struggle and fight to breathe.
She’s basically restrained her and has probably been doing this inhumane act to other babies for years. How many other little ones have struggled to move and breathe under her care. It’s sickening to read never mind endure.

I'm still reeling over the thought that it was okay for a baby room to have a 1:5 ratio, even before the other staff member went off sick and one member of staff was left unsupervised. Management were fully aware of this and allowed it to happen and this wouldn't be new. Each parent would have been assured of the excellence of care and high staff ratios when they visited, and seen staff cuddling babies - all for show.

How can poor parents possibly trust what they see?

I read this the other day and couldn't find anything on here about it. I can't stop thinking about that poor baby and her parents.

@aandyetthe I think that's an absolutely awful comment to make tbh. Like truly disgusting.

I wish I hadn't read the link, that made me cry. That poor little girl.
I know what I'd do if I got my hands on that cruel, heartless b**ch.
RIP Genevieve... 🌷

I've got a family member who visited nurseries as part of their job. She was very pleased when I decided to keep mine at home until they were 2 and a half ish. That's pretty damming, isn't it?

@chocmatcha of course they knew. There's no way that you work so closely with a colleague and don't see that they're abusing children. Unfortunately as pps have said these sick cultures comes from the top down, and it makes it harder for good workers to speak up. I have four children, I put my second born into a daycare for six months and turned up early one day to collect him. What I saw through the window was enough for me to remove him and none of my subsequent children ever went to a nursery.

The young and elderly of this country are used to turn a profit.... real care is in very short supply.

Completely unnecessary. Ignorant too.

Yep.

I'm ok with that. Thanks for sharing your opinion.

Really sorry you had that experience.

Agreed.

I sleep easy knowing I didn't send my non verbal babies off to god knows what.

As a preschool teacher please do not think all nursery nurses are like this. We are all absolutely horrified and just cannot understand how someone could do this. There are some very strict policies on sleeping, the fact there was some kind of bean bag in the setting and only 2 staff in a room with 10 babies in itself is appalling! Managers should be held responsible too.

We've just had a nursery in our suburb closed down during the day whilst being inspected by OFSTED.

They said it was unsanitary and the staff were untrained and had no DBS. That children were crying without being comforted because the children didn't know who they were, that the outside area was unused and unusable.

It sounded like a disaster area and I think most people would have noticed when they looked around.

It was run by a woman who had some pull and who some people admired If anyone remembers that documentary when Stacey Dooleynwent to that house where they had a zoo...that's them.

That's my point. They may not work closely with them. We don't know the set up

Nasty. Some of us have to send our kids to nursery so we can afford to keep a roof over their heads

It’s awful. Many women in this economy have no choice but to work and the quality of childcare varies so much amongst nurseries.

We picked an international chain for this reason rather than a local standalone branch. We were more comfortable with him being with other people than just a nanny without supervision.

International chain means nothing at all.

It does to a certain degree in that they have more resourcing, more scrutiny, and set policies that if violated can see the branch shut down.

I am the breadwinner, my child has to go to nursery, so we made the best decision we could.

Why would an ‘international chain’ make any difference?

We were more comfortable with him being with other people than just a nanny without supervision

There were other people there - they did nothing.