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Nursery worker tells court she does not feel her ‘actions caused’ the death of baby | UK News

Nursery worker tells court she does not feel her ‘actions caused’ the death of baby | UK News

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A nursery worker has told a jury she felt responsible for the death of a baby girl in her care who she put to sleep on a beanbag, but did not believe her actions were the cause. Kate Roughley, 37, found nine-month-old Genevieve Meehan unresponsive and blue on the afternoon of 9 May 2022 at the Tiny Toes Nursery in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport. The prosecution allege she had placed Genevieve on her front, tightly swaddled and strapped to a beanbag for more than 90 minutes as the youngster was left “virtually immobilised” and that her cries and distress were “simply ignored”. Roughley, from Heaton Norris, Stockport, denies manslaughter and an alternative count of child cruelty. Giving evidence at Manchester Crown Court, Roughley said she put Genevieve on her side on the beanbag and that she had “no cause for concern” up to the point when she discovered the youngster was not breathing. Follow Sky News on WhatsApp Keep up with all the latest news from the UK and around the world by following Sky News …

Supermassive black holes may provide a nursery for mini ones to grow

Supermassive black holes may provide a nursery for mini ones to grow

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We may have a clearer understanding of why the accretion disc around large black holes is so bright Dana Berry/SkyWorks Digital/NASA Thousands of relatively small black holes may be circling the supermassive black holes that lurk at the centres of galaxies. The idea would not only help explain how small black holes grow larger, it would also give us a new understanding of why supermassive black holes appear so bright. The centres of galaxies are extraordinarily dense, so matter – including relatively small, or stellar-mass, black holes – tends to accumulate there. Some of… Source link

Baby died after being strapped to bean bag by deputy nursery manager and ignored, court hears | UK News

Baby died after being strapped to bean bag by deputy nursery manager and ignored, court hears | UK News

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A nursery deputy manager caused the death of a nine-month-old baby girl by tightly swaddling her, placing her face down and strapping her to a bean bag, a court has heard. Kate Roughley is accused of the manslaughter by ill-treatment of Genevieve Meehan at the Tiny Toes Nursery in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport. The defendant found Genevieve, known to her family as Gigi, unresponsive and blue on the afternoon of 9 May 2022. Staff and then paramedics attempted to revive her, but she was pronounced dead later that day in hospital. Opening the case at Manchester Crown Court on Tuesday, prosecutor Peter Wright KC told jurors that strapping a child to a bean bag on their front was an “obvious recipe for disaster”. He said the youngster died from a combination of asphyxia and pathophysiological stress. The defendant was the duty baby room leader and in charge of sleeping arrangements on 9 May. Mr Wright said Genevieve had been swaddled “so tightly that the child was effectively unable to move” before being “placed not on her …

Pregnant woman says fiancé’s family rocking chair doesn’t fit nursery room ‘theme’

Pregnant woman says fiancé’s family rocking chair doesn’t fit nursery room ‘theme’

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Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter A man has expressed his frustration after his pregnant fiancée refused to use his family rocking chair for their nursery room because it didn’t fit her “theme.” On X, formerly known as Twitter, the husband (@nicholasig13) took to the social media platform to vent his frustrations over his wife dismissing his dream of putting the rocking chair, which was passed down to him from his late parents, in the baby’s room. He wrote: “My pregnant fiancée just told me we can’t put the rocking chair my father bought for my mother that my sister and I were both nursed on in the baby’s nursery because it won’t match her ‘theme’.” “Both my parents have passed,” he added. “This is a big ****ing issue for me.” The post has since gone viral, garnering over 6.5m views on the platform and sparking discourse. “I’d put …

What happens when you put a nursery in a care home? – podcast | News

What happens when you put a nursery in a care home? – podcast | News

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“I think there’s something very natural about bringing young children and older people together, and yet in the UK it’s not the norm any more,” Helen Pidd, the Guardian’s north of England editor, tells Nosheen Iqbal. Is the UK missing out on the benefits of intergenerational living? Helen visits Belong Chester, a multigenerational care home in Chester’s city centre. Sue Egersdorff, co-founder of the charity Ready Generations, who operate Belong’s nursery, tells Helen that many residents are reserved when they arrive but blossom when they make friends with the nursery children. “The children come in and you actually see them, their whole body, unfurl,” Egersdorff says. Helen meets residents with dementia and those who care for them, and finds out about the benefits of the environment for the older residents and for the nursery children. “I think what the children really gain is they have access to a whole ready community of incredibly patient and available older people, who do things at a slower pace, which is perfect for children who often do need a …

Revealed: the bumper profits taken by English private nursery chains | Childcare

Revealed: the bumper profits taken by English private nursery chains | Childcare

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Campaigners are calling for tougher regulation of the childcare market to safeguard taxpayers’ money, as new analysis shows more than £1 in every £5 spent at English nurseries backed by large investment companies ends up as profit. Jeremy Hunt announced an extra £500m funding in last week’s budget, to help meet his promise of 30 hours a week of free childcare for under-threes by September next year – which he hopes will bring 60,000 parents back to work. With public funding for the sector set to surge, research by the Guardian and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) in collaboration with investigative accounting firm Trinava Consulting reveals that private chains are poised to make bumper profits, even as small providers struggle to survive. The analysis shows nurseries backed by investment companies – including private equity firms, asset managers and international pension funds – reported double the profits of other private providers and seven times those of non-profits. JRF said the findings underlined the need for stricter controls on the sector. In a new report, the anti-poverty …

‘Heartbreaking’: the nursery forced to close over Hunt’s free childcare policy | Childcare

‘Heartbreaking’: the nursery forced to close over Hunt’s free childcare policy | Childcare

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In the playground of the Sprig Ludens nursery, a little girl tests her waterproofs to the limit as the rain falls and she jumps in a giant muddy puddle. Another toddler has a look of fierce concentration on his face as he walks across a plank balanced across two tyres; his little pal climbs a nearby tree. Filled with a chorus of play and birdsong, Sprigs – as it’s known to its small clients and their grownups – is an incongruous wild island surrounded by a concrete sea of tightly packed terrace houses and busy artery roads in Streatham, south London. “They do camp fires,” says parent Dani Powell. “I love it when my son comes home smelling of smoke.” But the free-range adventures he has enjoyed here are about to abruptly end. Last week, the charity that runs Sprigs said government funding levels meant it couldn’t afford to pay its staff the London living wage, and it would have to close. “It is just heartbreaking,” says Powell. One year on from chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s …

‘Underfunded’ government free nursery place scheme driving providers out of business | Politics News

‘Underfunded’ government free nursery place scheme driving providers out of business | Politics News

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It was intended to make childcare more affordable, and more than 100,000 applications have already been submitted. It will be rolled out to babies from nine months in September. But providers warn that the funding will not be enough to cover costs and risks putting them out of business, as the sector struggles with food and energy inflation, as well as staff shortages. A survey of nearly 1,200 providers by the Early Years Alliance found most of those planning to offer the free hours were yet to hear what their funding rate would be from their local authority – with just weeks until it starts. • For those which have, 60% of nurseries and pre-schools surveyed said the rate they had been offered would be less than the cost of delivering places – leaving them with a shortfall; • A quarter – 24% – said it was very or somewhat likely they would close in the next 12 months due to cost pressures; • There is already a crunch on places and most (71%) are …

Young, old and marvellous: how a care home built a nursery – and everyone thrived | Social care

Young, old and marvellous: how a care home built a nursery – and everyone thrived | Social care

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It is lunchtime in the bistro at Belong and half a dozen toddlers are tucking into sausage cassoulet, mash and seasonal vegetables. Anyone acquainted with the table manners of two- and three-year-olds may well be bracing themselves for carnage. Yet green beans are being happily pronged with forks rather than chucked on the floor and some faces don’t even need a wipe. To underline this dining miracle: one little girl is wearing a white top that survives a tomato-based sauce. For this remarkable scene we can thank the calming presence of Bill Wall, who sits in the middle drinking a cappuccino and gently encouraging the children to have a few more mouthfuls. This 87-year-old former electrician has become one of the children’s “grandfriends” – “our Bill”, they call him. Since he moved into the intergenerational community in Chester last year, he spends almost as much time down in the nursery as up in his care home suite. Wall struggles to talk these days, but he does not need words to communicate with the children. One …