Vanessa George, who is understood to have worked at Little Ted's nursery in Plymouth for several years, has also been charged with making, possessing and distributing indecent images of children.
Police are sorting through hundreds of images to try to identify individual children, after seizing a mobile phone and computer equipment, following a search at the nursery and Ms George's home.
On Friday the Plymouth Safeguarding Children Board held an extraordinary general meeting and decided that 'due to the very serious nature of the allegations against Vanessa George' it will instigate a serious case review.
In a statement, the board said, 'We are committed to keeping children safe and are concerned that the charges laid in this case indicate that the standards of safety we require have been gravely compromised.'
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