Last month, the council announced it is to carry out an investigation into possible health and safety failings at the nursery after the setting’s former deputy manager, Kate Roughley, was found guilty of the manslaughter of Genevieve and sentenced to 14 years in prison.
At the nine-month-old’s pre-inquest hearing yesterday (24 June), the court heard how the council is considering possible health and safety offences and ‘exposing children to risk’.
The solicitor for the council’s trading standards department, Michelle Dodds, said, ‘It is very much a live investigation’, and that there is ‘a lot of hours of CCTV to go through.’
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