It has been standard practice to put babies to sleep on their backs since the 1991 Back To Sleep campaign which was credited with reducing the rate of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) by more than 80%.
This makes the death of Genevieve Meehan in May 2022, ruled “absolutely avoidable” by a judge, even more shocking. The nine-month-old was strapped to a beanbag at Tiny Toes Children’s Day Nursery, in Stockport, covered with a blanket and left face down for more than 90 minutes. She was found unresponsive, the pathologist report showing she died from asphyxia and pathophysiological stress from an unsafe sleep environment.
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