Mum’s horror as 2-year-old wanders out of nursery with friend

Mum livid after two-year-old wanders out of nursery and tries to cross busy road. (Image: Google Maps)A mum is livid after her two-year-old son was able to wander out of a nursery. The young boy and a little friend then reportedly attempted to cross a busy road.Linden Smith got out of what his mother insisted was an insecure gate at Hillside House Nursery near Shrewsbury, Shropshire.Mother Becky Worrall said she was ‘very upset’ about the incident.The children ‘could have wandered off into the local woodland and drowned or been run over’, she added.Becky has decided to take her son out of the nursery and leave him with a child minder.She, quoted in the Shropshire Star, said: ‘There is nothing that they can say that would persuade me to take Linden back there.’I don’t know about the other little boy.’Describing the event which has made her feel ‘livid’, Becky said: ‘At first I was told that they had escaped under a gate but the gate was unlocked.’There were four members of staff but they did not realise they were missing for more than three minutes…READ MORE: Ex-defence chief demands inquiry into ‘what the hell is going on'”I think it is absolutely shocking. I don’t feel they have dealt properly with it at all. The gate was unlocked, but where were the visual checks?…’If that member of the public had not been there, they could have been run over or taken by paedophiles, or gone into woodland. A million different things could have happened to them.’I will forever be in the debt and forever grateful that the member of the public was walking her dog.”The nursery itself has said it is ‘devastation’ about the incident.A spokesperson said: ‘Our team is devastated that something like this could happen and we have apologised profusely to the families concerned.DON’T MISS: Hated Brexit deal ‘could shatter UK’ [OPINION] Farage blasts those blaming conflict in Ukraine for inflation [NEWS] Britons blast Tories and Labour who are ‘as bad as each other’ [OPINION]”We take great care to safeguard our children and have launched an investigation to understand exactly what happened. The faulty padlock has been replaced and additional security measures have been implemented to ensure that no child is able to leave our premises by themselves.’They added that disciplinary proceedings have begun.The spokesperson said: ‘We have begun disciplinary proceedings, have retrained the team in safeguarding practices and reissued our policies and procedures, along with introducing additional garden checks, to ensure this never happens again.”We have informed the local authority as well as Ofsted who have undertaken a compliance call and will publish a summary of their findings.’We would like to reassure parents that we will do everything in our power to keep their children safe at all times and are grateful to the members of the public who returned the children safely to the nursery.’