Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.AllNewsSportCultureLifestyleNoah SIbanda suffocated to death while at nursery (PA)A 14-month-old toddler, Noah Sibanda, died in December 2022 at Fairytales Day Nursery in Dudley due to gross negligence manslaughter. Nursery worker Kimberley Cookson was jailed for three years and four months for tightly wrapping Noah in a sleeping bag, covering his head, placing him face down, and then leaving him unchecked. The Fairytales Day Nursery was permanently closed by Ofsted in April 2023 following the incident. Parents whose children attended the nursery are now demanding urgent reforms to childcare safeguarding, staff training, and safety standards. Calls for stricter regulations, such as compulsory CCTV and more frequent unannounced inspections, mirror demands made after the death of another child, Genevieve Meehan, in a separate nursery incident. In full‘This could have ended in tragedy for us too. More children will die at nurseries if things don’t change’Thank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
Parents demand urgent nursery changes after toddler suffocates
Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.AllNewsSportCultureLifestyleNoah SIbanda suffocated to death while at nursery (PA)A 14-month-old toddler, Noah Sibanda, died in December 2022 at Fairytales Day Nursery in Dudley due to gross negligence manslaughter. Nursery worker Kimberley Cookson was jailed for three years and four months for tightly wrapping Noah in a sleeping bag, covering his head, placing him face down, and then leaving him unchecked. The Fairytales Day Nursery was permanently closed by Ofsted in April 2023 following the incident. Parents whose children attended the nursery are now demanding urgent reforms to childcare safeguarding, staff training, and safety standards. Calls for stricter regulations, such as compulsory CCTV and more frequent unannounced inspections, mirror demands made after the death of another child, Genevieve Meehan, in a separate nursery incident. In full‘This could have ended in tragedy for us too. More children will die at nurseries if things don’t change’Thank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
