The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) has added its voice to campaigners calling for a register. The move follows two separate court cases last month involving a childminder and a nanny.
In the first case in Croydon, Surrey, a registered childminder, Linda Bayfield, was found guilty of the manslaughter of eight-month-old Joshua Osborne by shaking him vigorously. She will be sentenced next week. In the second case, a London nanny, Kelly Lawrence, received a 15-month jail sentence on 21 December for abusing two 14-month-old toddlers in her care, and the judge said she was disqualified from working with children for life.
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