“Elaine and Jason work extremely hard towards providing the children in their settings the best quality care. They have improved their newest setting vastly, which has benefitted the children and their parents. This incident should not have happened, but unfortunately it did. Action has been taken after this incident and as someone mentioned before, people should not be tarred with the same brush (in this case the members of staff working throughout the settings as well as Elaine and Jason!)”

“I was on good money before my daughter (now 4YO) was born. I decided not only to not return to work while she was young, but to home educate her until she is at least 11 years old. That meant giving up my wages of course, but I felt that compared to a mother's love, that was no big loss. Also, I worked out how much money I would be 'losing' by not earning, and it turned out to be not much.

I would like to ask working parents to think about their wages. Take your salary and subtract the tax and NI that you pay. From what's left, take off your travel expenses to and from work, and to and from the nursery. Take off the nursery fees. What about your lunch while you are at work - do you buy it, or make it? Do you have to buy special clothes for work? Do you have various kitties, coffee jars, birthday funds and work parties that you are obliged to contribute to/attend? If you were at home, would you grow any food? Take into account as well the fact that when you are working all day, then have to pick a child up from the nursery, by the time you get home many of you will not cook a meal from 'scratch' which is far cheaper, more nutricious, and much, much tastier than convenience foods. Perhaps once or twice a week you 'treat' yourselves to a takeaway or a meal in a restaurant to save yourself the hassle of cooking. If you weren't at work it wouldn't be a hassle. So how much are you working for really?

Personally, when I took all these things into account, I found I would be something like £5 a week better off for going back to a well-paid 30 hour per week job. £5 a week! Work it out. I'm sure there will be some of you out there who still think it's better to be out chasing money, but I'm pretty certain quite a few of you will be surprised by what you find. Some of you might even find that you are working merely to earn the money to go to work!”

“my child attends this nursery and i have no concerns what so ever. the staff are lovely and work hard. It has been shown that action has been made and if there was anything to worry about im sure ofsted would of took things further. My child is always happy and enjoys time at this nursery. teeny tots will always have my trust and just because of a this, elaine and jason should not be slated. every one knows what the media is like with blowing things out of proportion its stupid and people should not judge a one sided story !”

“As a nursery manager myself I can understand all sides of this 'incident'. Yes things should have been in place to ensure this didn't happen (garden checks, head counts etc) but then with adult to child ratios being as they are (1:3 for age 0-2 years, 1:4 for 2-3 years and 1:8 for 3-5 years) all it would have taken is for one other child to take that one member of staffs attention for a split second for the other child/children to 'escape' as it states.
Caring and educating other peoples children is an fantastic but hard job and as in all jobs people make mistakes. Obviously this could have been but thankfully wasn't a mistake that caused serious harm or injury to the child/ren. The setting will learn from this and this will only I'm sure drive the owners to ensuring this type of incident does not happen again.

As for the other comments on this story...DEA1974, Hessle and Dave, Hull...I cannot understand your comments! People work because they have to - to support and provide for their family. Children going to nursery is a positive life experience - they learn to play, socialise, become independent from their parents and caregivers and get to experience things they may not get chance to at home for various reasons. It is not about 'dumping' them on other people! I have parents within my setting who do not work but have their children in nursery one or two afternoons a week to get them used to being around other children/adults ready for school - which is fantastic for the children.

Let's praise those parents that work hard to give their children the best start by sending them to nursery and working hard to provide for their future -not disregard them as bad parents!!”

“I am a parent who has a child at a Teeny Tots setting and I think there is nothing to worry about. I work in an Ofsted governed business myself and i am very pleased with their ratings. People should really know what they are talking about before they rant. My daughter will be at nursery on Monday and i will leave her with total confidence and i know she will be well looked after and safe. People need to look at their history and not an isolated incident. Things will always happen, the ranters need to only comment when they know what they are talking about. To the staff ~ see you on Monday and i know you all work hard doing a great job. Don't let the small minded comments get you down!!”