Parents demand urgent nursery safety changes after toddler suffocates
Noah SIbanda suffocated to death while at nursery (PA)
A 14-month-old toddler, Noah Sibanda, died in December 2022 at Fairytales Day Nursery in Dudley due to gross negligence manslaughter.
Nursery worker Kimberley Cookson was jailed for three years and four months for tightly wrapping Noah in a sleeping bag, covering his head, placing him face down, and then leaving him unchecked.
The Fairytales Day Nursery was permanently closed by Ofsted in April 2023 following the incident.
Parents whose children attended the nursery are now demanding urgent reforms to childcare safeguarding, staff training, and safety standards.
Calls for stricter regulations, such as compulsory CCTV and more frequent unannounced inspections, mirror demands made after the death of another child, Genevieve Meehan, in a separate nursery incident.
