Neelima Rajendran, Bengaluru resident and a working mother with a three-year-old daughter, felt a chill down her spine when she saw the videos of the alleged child abuse at the daycare centre on the Capgemini premises in Brookefield. Neelima‘s daughter started attending a daycare near her house when she was only a little past one. The parents, both working, found it near-impossible to find a reliable stay-at-home nanny for the toddler. “I wasn’t fully satisfied with the daycare we finally settled for, as it didn’t have a CCTV camera, but it was better than all the other centres we visited near our house. It was shocking to see the videos of children being abused at the centre. Now I keep wondering what a big risk we are taking by sending children to these facilities,” Neelima exclaims. Crèches and daycare centres are often the only viable childcare option for urban nuclear households where both parents work. The incident at the daycare at Capgemini, where children being allegedly abused by the staff was caught on camera, has left many parents like Neelima questioning whether their children are truly safe in such facilities. Further, it has exposed the gaps in the childcare system in the State, highlighting how the line of accountability blurs when things go wrong at workplace childcare. Glaring gaps