Just Learning Ltd was ordered to pay a £67,000 fine and £78,100 in costs when a local authority investigation into the nursery's policies and procedures found health and safety failings.
The investigation was launched after ten-month-old Georgia Hollick died from asphyxiation after choking on a piece of apple at the Cambourne, Cambridgeshire nursery in April 2006 (News, 27 April 2006). An inquest ruled Georgia's death as accidental.
Jonathan Bell, managing director of Just Learning, appeared before Cambridge Crown Court last week, having already pleaded guilty to one breach of health and safety law.
The legal action was brought by South Cambridgeshire District Council's environmental health department, which decided to prosecute the nursery chain after finding that it failed to have adequate health and safety processes and systems in place (News, 3 July 2008).
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