Strong words followed in the Manchester Evening News from a co-director of one of the nurseries featured in the secretly recorded programme.
Jenny Rivers, of Bank House Day Nursery in Radcliffe, said she was "disgusted" that the BBC was allowed to film children without obtaining consent from parents. Her concern for good practice does her credit. But it has a hollow ring, given that the undercover reporter says she was hired without supplying so much as a CV.
The Daily Telegraph began with a tongue-in-cheek charge sheet of the failings of Mary Poppins and au pair Maria in The Sound of Music. Ms Poppins turns out to be "irresponsible, dangerous and a liability to her charges".
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