Mum’s anger after her daughter, 3, was severely sunburned when staff failed to put sun cream on her
Amber Ross's back was left bright red after being allowed to play in 20C weather at her nursery without sun protection
A FURIOUS mum has taken her three-year-old daughter out of a nursery after she was severely sunburnt while playing outside in 20C weather.
Amber Ross was collected by her mother Stephanie, 24, from Jigsaw Pre-School in Portsmouth with "bright red" sunburn across her back and shoulders.
Stephanie then got in touch with the pre-school and claims she was told that no sun cream was applied to Amber or any of the other children that day.
She said she was told that the pre-school’s policy was that the parents of every child would provide a named bottle of suncream so that if the children did play outside they would be able to do so safely.
Stephanie said: "The top half of Amber was severely burnt.
"I was deeply upset about it all, and my husband Gareth and I were thinking to ourselves: 'How could we trust these people to look after our child after this?'"
"I was very angry. It’s their job to make sure kids are all right to go out in the sun and the fact that none of them had suncream on them is very irresponsible."
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Amber had only been in the pre-school for just over a month after the family recently moved to the area.
They chose it as it is near to St John the Baptist Church of England Primary School which Amber’s six-year-old brother Aiden attends.
She decided the best course of action was to take Amber out of the pre-school and is now on the lookout for a replacement in the area.
She added: "The school has since apologised to me about it and assured me that it was a mistake that would not happen again."
She said that the pre-school had informed her that the member of staff responsible for the lack of suncream applied to the children that day had been given a written warning.
"We feel let down about it all as it’s not easy having to take Amber out of the pre-school when she was only just getting started," Stephanie added.
"Amber’s okay now and understands what happened. I spoke to some parents at the school about it, but I don’t think their children got burnt quite like Amber."