Nursery World - Nursery where staff watched child pornography to close

A nursery where two former members of staff were caught watching a video with indecent images of children is set to close at the end of the month.

The nursery is one of 28 settings run under the Monkey Puzzle Day Nurseries franchise.

The Monkey Puzzle Group has said that the closure of the setting is not related to the incident in March when two members of staff at the Islington setting were dismissed after they were caught watching a video with indecent images of children.

The setting was found to be inadequate during a subsequent inspection, which Ofsted said was brought forward as the result of conerns raised about suitability and safeguarding.

The two former members of staff have been granted bail until the end of month pending further inquiries.

Will Campbell, UK managing director of the Monkey Puzzle Group, said, ‘The decision to close the premises is entirely unrelated to the other recent incident at the site. It has been taken because we have been unable to secure the long-term position of the site with the landlord. We have given our parents one month’s notice in line with our terms and conditions.

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