Nursery World - Ofsted says lack of supervision largely responsible for child's nursery death

The failure of nursery staff to supervise a free flow play session contributed to the death of a child who choked on a jelly cube, an inquest has heard.

Tiya Chauhan was found unconscious on the morning of 23 August 2012 at the Dundonald Road Dicky Birds nursery in Wimbledon and died the following day.

Mathew Hill, a senior officer at Ofsted, told the inquest at Westminster Coroner's Court that a child was likely to put a jelly cube in its mouth.

'A child is likely to want to put it in its mouth,' he said. He told the inquest that he did not think that it was possible to properly supervise children from the next room.

'I always felt that our position, from the evidence that we had available, was that supervision from the room next door was not sufficient, 'Mr Hill said.

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