Vanessa George, aged 39, who worked at Little Ted's nursery in the city, has been charged with making and distributing indecent images of children and with sexually assaulting children.
Childcare professionals, while expressing their shock at the case, say their colleagues must reassure parents about the policies and procedures they have in place to protect children rather than respond with a knee-jerk reaction and ban photographs in their settings.
‘When these dreadful things happen there is often a strong reaction,' says early years consultant Helen Bromley. ‘But we can only hope now that any reaction is tempered and will not impact on best practice. We have just managed to convince people that using photography is a really good thing. My fear is that we will go back to a situation where nobody will take photographs.'
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