Ealing Nursery Vandalised After BBC Attack

Graffiti in response to undercover report last night

VANDALS have attacked the Ealing nursery featured in last night's undercover Whistleblower consumer programme on BBC1.

The graffiti attack followed allegations that poorly supervised children are being put at risk at the Hanwell nursery.

The word "scum" was spray painted in front of Buttons Day Nursery School, which was the focus of an investigation into private nursery school conduct last night.

The programme included accusations of staff being recruited without any background checks and children being exposed to broken glass, power tools and other hazards.

"I saw two nursery assistants hauling a boy across the nursery by his arm. Then I heard a child being called a "sh*t-bag" and saw a little girl's head being shoved into a mattress on the floor as she didn't want to go," said reporter Imogen Willcocks, in the programme last night.

But parents are said to be rallying round the owners, who said they would investigate the complaints. They insisted the nursery had "well documented procedures in place to ensure the safety of children at all times."

September 15, 2008