{"id":478772,"date":"2026-03-16T15:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/478772\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:16:07","slug":"abuse-happened-in-plain-sight-families-demand-answers-over-monster-nursery-rapist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/478772\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Abuse happened in plain sight’: Families demand answers over ‘monster’ nursery rapist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lord said that in light of other similar incidents across the country, including one in north London<\/a>, there is a case for a major review of safeguarding systems. <\/p>\n

“One case of this nature is horrendous,” he said.<\/p>\n

“To think that this has happened in two separate nurseries on opposite ends of the country, is just an absolute nightmare.<\/p>\n

“I do think that there is something to be said for a real regulatory overhaul, and for legislators to be thinking about how they can better protect children.”<\/p>\n

He said this could include looking at how long CCTV is kept for, making sure that the complaints are adequately being followed up and mandatory reporting.<\/p>\n

The firm is also looking into what checks were made before Bennett was employed by Kings Street nursery, as well as what safeguarding training the staff had.<\/p>\n

A Department of Education spokesperson said work is under way to develop new guidance on digital devices and CCTV to help further improve children’s safety. <\/p>\n

“Our Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill marks the most significant reform to child protection in a generation, and we are putting a renewed focus on strengthening safeguarding across early years,” they said.<\/p>\n

“Our new requirements mean every employee must come with references and every setting must support whistleblowing staff who raise concerns.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lord said that in light of other similar incidents across the country, including one in north London, there…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-478772","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\/478772","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=478772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}