"What has happened here is not just about one individual or one nursery. We believe Chan's crimes raise serious questions about how childcare providers recruit, supervise and safeguard staff, and how warning signs can be overlooked over long periods of time. In our case, Bright Horizons repeatedly dismissed concerns from parents about Chan's behaviour, and we believe their consistent culture of brushing concerns aside was key to enabling this catastrophe to happen."
"They will be seeking full accountability for those failures, initially through the civil courts, and are also urging Camden council to investigate the case for prosecution of Bright Horizons as a corporate entity."
Vincent Chan, 45, faces prison for molesting girls aged two to four while employed at the now-closed Bright Horizons nursery on Finchley Road, West Hampstead. Legal firm Leigh Day reports that 46 families, originally 12, are pursuing civil claims against Bright Horizons for alleged safeguarding failures and a consistent culture of dismissing parental concerns. The families include relatives of Chan's victims and those whose children were mistreated in other ways, including image-based offending. Chan admitted 30 additional offences at Highbury Corner magistrates court relating to ten girls and six women outside the nursery. Chan will be sentenced on 12 February for 56 offences to which he pleaded guilty.
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