I too have a child at Oak tree nursery, firstly I would like to say that I am sorry that this happened to your son sweetgirl and I can understand that this must have been a very distressing incident and I am pleased that your son was found safe and well. I would be very upset if this had happened to my son but I feel that I have to point out a few things from the perspective of a parent that has a child currently at the nursery. Turning on the ITV news last night I was not happy at all to see a reporter with a camera trying to gain entry to the building with my son inside! Parents have been notified of this incident and measures have been put into place so that hopefully this will never happen again. OFSTED visited the nursery yesterday to do a spot check and it is their opinion on the nursery and the reaction to the incident from the nursery itself that I am interested in, not the opinion of the media who will take their own angle on this and pick out the snippets of information that back up their story. My own opinion on the nursery (which is first hand) would support a lot of what Woo88 has to say. My main problem with this report is the focus on the staff being uncaring and uninterested something that has really upset some of the girls who work at the nursery. I am not saying that they did not come across like this following the incident, (I was not there). I have to add however that this is certainly not my experience of the staff. My son has been there for 9 months and one of the things that I constantly tell everyone is how lovely and caring the staff are with him. My son is very happy there and whenever I pick him up which is often at different times due to the hours that I work, all the children including him are very happy and engaged with the staff. I too would be very upset if the nursery closed down, the members of staff that work with my son and his keyworker our fantastic and it would be a shame to see their jobs on the line. Our son is very happy there and has lots of friends, I hope this can all be rectified in an appropriate way with communication between the people directly involved and not through the media.
