Nursery World - Children want to talk about the riots

During the week of the riots, many young children saw violence and wanton destruction.

'We can't go outside because they will take you away and the shops are broken,' said a four-year-old boy at Blue House Day Nursery in Croydon.

A four-year-old girl who also attends the nursery said, 'Now the shops are broken we can't go in there to buy things. Some people are bad out there.'

The children at the nursery were kept indoors and were sent home early one day because of fears over their safety.

Staff at the nursery had the difficult job of answering their questions, according to Mandy Lupton, junior deputy manager, who said the older children in particular were very inquisitive about the rioting and looting.

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