How Safe is your Child's Nursery ?

[BackforGood]

Where's the thread about this Channel4 programme shown last night ?
I simply can't believe there isn't one, but I can't find it......

[Tweedledeedum]

Me either, I was sure they'd be a long thread on this, it was very worrying! Wonder if Ofsted will listen and allow you to see that a dodgy nursery has closed then name changed and opened again...

[squalorvictoria]

I'm surprised there's no thread either. Can't believe that massive Ofsted loophole - change the name and wipe the slate clean. Shocking.

[BackforGood]

Sadly, I know it's not that uncommon. It's certainly not a 'one off' they dug deeply for, for the programme.

[ShiftyFades]

I've just watched this on 4OD. Shocking. My son broke his leg at his previous nursery due to the negligence of the staff. I shall be checking that they haven't changed their name so the upheld complaint is still visible to potential new clients.

Having been on the end of such frightening incompetence, I am disgusted!!

[ShiftyFades]

Interestingly the Ofsted report that was carried out 6 months before my sons accident highlights a problem in safeguarding in that there was a problem with risk assessments.... Sadly it doesn't detail what exactly was wrong / lacking.
I wonder if, had it been more detailed, parents would have put pressure on the management to resolve this and maybe, just maybe, my son wouldn't have been injured

[Blondeshavemorefun]

I think it's awful that a nursery can change its name and be under new management and then all previous complaints and ofsted reports get swept under the carpet :(

[JazzAnnNonMouse]

Especially for that new management to be in fact the old managements wife...!

[juneau]

I was appalled by this programme - not least because I'm currently trying to find a good nursery for DS2. If the Ofsted reports don't give parents all the information they need to make a fully informed choice, where do we turn for that information? With only one inspection happening within each inspecting period (which seems to be four years, from what I can tell), I wonder just how informative the reports are anyway.