‘The incident did not involve strangulation and a dangling child from a cord from a blind,’ said Bertram Nursery Group managing director Cary Rankin, reacting to the shocking reports about one-year-old Willow Green.
The child's mother Kelly Connolly reportedly discovered the sore red stripe on her baby daughter’s neck only after she was sent home from Holyrood Nursery Hope, in Salford, Manchester.
Ms Connolly, herself a senior children’s nurse, has slammed the nursery for alleged policy failures and not alerting her following the incident on Friday morning (27 May).
She is understood to have taken her daughter for hospital treatment as soon as she saw the injury later that day, after she had completed a 12-hour shift.
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