A nursery has been fined £225,000 for serious hygiene breaches after mouse droppings were found in children’s playrooms and a kitchen.
Busy Bees at Leytonstone, in east London, was closed by health inspectors after they also found a lack of hot water due to a broken boiler, no soap in the toilets and poor levels of cleaning during a visit on January 12 last year.
Busy Bees runs more than 390 outlets throughout the UK that offer “rich learning opportunities and warm, nurturing environments that parents and children love”.
The firm has now pleaded guilty at Thames Magistrates Court to two food safety and hygiene offences and has been fined £225,000.
The court was told that environmental health officers from Waltham Forest Council found mouse droppings throughout the kitchen, under units, by the sink, storeroom, and in the children’s playrooms.
