Leona01

I am not sure if you have already chosen a nursery for your daughter, but I thought I would comment any way. My son currently goes to Bright Horizons nursery, Dog Kennel Hill near the Sainsburys in Dulwich and each week I come away with more and more questions about whether or not he should be there. If he were not leaving in 2 months, I would have taken the time to look for a different place for him to spend his time. At present, there is a consistent problem with biting and bullying at the nursery with 90% (and no I am not exaggerating) of incidents being carried out by 1 young boy. The managers there are not pro-active in attempting to resolve this issue. It has been going on since last year and seemed to resolve itself until last month when I happened to talk to a mother of another child who got bitten the same day my son did. On investigation, there have been many more, and it appears that they have been attempting to hide the incidents. Some of the staff are very competent, but the staffing levels are sometimes questionable - in that they appear to use the Chef to "make up the numbers" in the early mornings. A manager is on maternity leave and couple of staff members have left, but this is still unacceptable in my opinion. There was also an incident where food was being delivered prior to the nurseries opening times and was therefore left outside - I sometimes purposefully jog past just to check that this is not the case any more - but why should I need to do this? The long opening hours really are not worth the stress and worry for your child so I would consider very carefully before sending your child to this nursery!

It's been a while since anyone has posted on this thread, but you might all be interested to know that the appeal that was made by Oak Tree Nursery against the decision to close the nursery has a date set for the 12th Jan 2015 (over a period of 4 days). I would be quite worried, but not surprised (as my faith in the system that regulates our children's safety is so very flawed) if the appeal were overturned, but I guess we can only wait and see!