Education minister Olivia Bailey told MPs in January the government was “considering the mandatory use of CCTV in early-years settings” as part of the review.<\/p>\n
Chan worked at the Bright Horizons nursery for seven years until he was suspended in 2024, after a colleague raised concerns about him.<\/p>\n
The whistleblower complained that Chan had filmed a child falling asleep and set the footage to music, in a bid to entertain his colleagues.<\/p>\n
The Metropolitan Police investigation that followed unearthed Chan’s collection of more than 25,000 indecent images of children.<\/p>\n
Among them were videos taken by Chan himself as he sexually assaulted some of the children at the nursery while they were sleeping.<\/p>\n
He admitted 56 offences in total.<\/p>\n
In a statement after Chan’s sentencing, Bright Horizons said: “Keeping children safe is our most important responsibility. Vincent Chan broke that trust.<\/p>\n
“His actions were depraved and devious and go against the kindness and care our dedicated professionals provide to children each day.”<\/p>\n
The company, which has nurseries across the country, said it is increasing awareness of ways staff can escalate concerns so that they do so quickly and confidentially.<\/p>\n
It added it has “extensive safeguarding practices and training requirements in place”, and it has “brought forward several internal safeguarding audits and refresher trainings to ensure staff are fully aware of their obligations”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Education minister Olivia Bailey told MPs in January the government was “considering the mandatory use of CCTV in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-454750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}