Miranda Anderson was found guilty on Thursday
The manager of a Scots nursery where a baby boy choked to death has been convicted of failing to ensure children were adequately monitored during mealtimes.
Anderson denied the charge and the court previously heard how she’d warned her bosses about staffing levels at the facility. The court previously heard how a nursery nurse sitting next to Fox during mealtime had left the room to go to the toilet. “There is nothing that the sheriff could do in sentencing that would in any way reflect the pain they feel or adequately address the senseless loss of Fox.”Fox was taken to the Sick Kids Hospital in Edinburgh but died the next day.
The court previously heard how Anderson flagged up worries about staff turnover and the nursery chain deployed extra workers to help cover shortfalls.Eilidh Sayers, a worker who was temporarily assigned to the nursery, gave evidence that it had been “suffering from extreme staff shortages and recruitment problems”.
Eilidh, who was a regional field lead for Bright Horizons in 2019, said there should be a ratio of one staff member supervising every three children.