My ribs hurt! BBC Scotland blames SNP’s best childcare provision in the UK for toddler escape!

From BBC Scotland today:

Toddler escaped Aberdeen nursery and was almost hit by a bus. A mum whose three-year-old son escaped from a nursery and was nearly hit by a bus has said the early years sector needs to get a grip of the growing problem. Kayleigh Kilpatrick’s son River left the nursery school in Aberdeen without staff noticing and walked most of the 15-minute journey home before he was found next to a busy road by a passer-by. His mother said her son suffers anxiety and separation issues as a result of the incident.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-67677891

First, do we have any real evidence presented of the child walking onto the road and/or of a bus nearly hitting them? No. Of course we don’t. Tabloid journalism.

Second:

According to regulators there has been a concerning rise in reported incidents of children leaving Scotland’s early years centres unaccompanied. New data for last year shows two children a week, on average, went missing either from nursery or while on trips.

That rise? BBC Scotland’s own graph:

We’re in mid-December. Nurseries close very soon, so there will have been a falling ‘trend’ this year.

Third, the cause of this trend, either way? Last two paragraphs:

Jonathan Broadbery – A big increase in the Scottish government-funded early learning and childcare on offer to parents has created staffing pressures in the industry, according to Mr Broadbery, who pointed to the 29% staff turnover rate in private nurseries. He added: “You’ve got a lot of staff moving from settings to settings – maybe some younger and less experienced staff coming through to fill those vacancies – so it’s a period of turmoil for our sector.”

Who is Jonathon Broadberry?

Director of Policy and Communications at NDNA National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) Huddersfield, England. What does he know about this? Why was he asked rather than someone in Scotland? Ask BBC Scotland.

SNP Education Secretary, Jenny Gilruth must go?

15 thoughts on “My ribs hurt! BBC Scotland blames SNP’s best childcare provision in the UK for toddler escape!”

  1. I went awol on my first day at Craiglockart Primary, old school, big Iron railings and locked gates at playtime. I was a much agrieved 4 and 1/2 year old having been wrapped over the knuckles with a ruler after wrongly being blamed for talking, it was
    a Girls fault. Anyway I climbed the gate and ran all the way home managing to cross the Slateford rd without injury, I lived in Stewart Terrace just off Gorgie road. Ma Mither wisnae best pleased and promptly turned me round and took me back to school. We met my brother and one of the prefects sent to fetch me, obviously somebody had cliped on me. The teacher wisnae to chuffed to see ma Mither, words wer exchanged and the ruler was never used again, we were belted instead. Anyway the point of this wee story is, was the wean asked why he ran away?I

    Golfnut

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    1. You were luck! My ma dreamed of free pre-school care in 1954. She had to just leave me in the park at 3 years old and come back after the housework. And no she didn’t have a hoover or a washing machine. We lived int cardboard box int middlet road…..

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  3. Escapee’s from nurseries, shocking…I wonder why. It must feel like prison for some kids, plonked in a nursery with locked gates, my son had daily anxiety at the gate of his pre school nursery, all those kids meant to be having fun, it wasn’t fun for him. He did not escape however I may have had to pick him up early at times due to staff not coping!
    It wasn’t the SNP’s fault, but Labour were in government back then so it was their fault pah! Labour refused SEN support for kids with autism etc. Labour refused to assess kids so as to avoid their statutory duty to put support in place. They’d do the same again and worse.

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  4. I did it too ( looks like we all did it ) wouldn’t surprise me.
    My mum and dad didn’t try and make a political point of it because they are not pathetic people.
    I didn’t like the nursery so I climbed a six foot steel wire fence at playtime and walked home half a mile away , my mum had just arrived home and went straight through the house and out the back door to bring in the washing , it had begun to rain.
    I came in the front door whilst she was in the garden , i hid behind an easy chair.
    The school noticed me missing so they phoned my mum I reckon that’s what the nursery did in this story too , the head teacher and assistant came to see my mum to discuss where I might have gone .
    The police were called and a search of the city took place.
    No luck I couldn’t be found , until , the headteacher and assistant sat down in our living room to have a cup of tea and a biscuit my mum had made and at that point the little feet behind the easy chair at the other end of the room were spotted by the seated teaching assistant .
    3 hours later the search was called off everyone was big smiles
    Especially me because it was too late to go back to the nursery so I got the rest of the day off.

    When asked why I had left the nursery I said , because I want to be with my mum 🙂

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    1. From an unofficial spokesperson for the Federated the UK (FUK) Group, “What is it with 3 year-olds today? Wasn’t like this when we had the birch and public floggings. No, not like this at all. It is right what they say, spare the rod etc.”

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      1. Because the MSM hae orders fae Westmonster tae find any SNP Baaaaaddd/Scotland is Rubbish story they can find an get it oot there an above awe it disna matter if its true !!

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        1. I meant to say “it disna matter if its nae true as the MSM will spread it aboot anyway an if challenged will at most gie a mealy moothed one line semi-apology at the bottom o a page somewhere lost in the paper!!

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