Parents demand urgent nursery safety changes after toddler suffocates

• A 14-month-old toddler, Noah Sibanda, died in December 2022 at Fairytales Day Nursery in Dudley due to gross negligence manslaughter.
• Nursery worker Kimberley Cookson was jailed for three years and four months for tightly wrapping Noah in a sleeping bag, covering his head, placing him face down, and then leaving him unchecked.
• The Fairytales Day Nursery was permanently closed by Ofsted in April 2023 following the incident.
• Parents whose children attended the nursery are now demanding urgent reforms to childcare safeguarding, staff training, and safety standards.
• Calls for stricter regulations, such as compulsory CCTV and more frequent unannounced inspections, mirror demands made after the death of another child, Genevieve Meehan, in a separate nursery incident.

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‘This could have ended in tragedy for us too. More children will die at nurseries if things don’t change’