Nursery on TV is cleared of bad practice

By Catherine Gaunt, Nursery World, 5 July 2007

A series of complaints lodged against the BBC by a Manchester nursery and some of its staff who were secretly filmed for a TV documentary have been upheld by the media regulator Ofcom.

Bank House Day Nursery in Radcliffe, Manchester, was one of three nurseries featured in 'Nurseries Undercover: The Real Story' in August 2004. The programme attracted seven million viewers and made front-page news for its claims of bad practice at Bank House, Petits Enfants Nursery in Teddington, and Little Treasures nursery, Stoke-on-Trent. Police and social services then investigated Bank House, but no action was taken. The furore around the programme led to the introduction...

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