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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Rebecca Thomas

Four nurses investigated over death of boy, 5, at flagship children’s care home

Connor Wellsted, died aged 5 while in the care of the Children’s Trust - (Family handout)

Four nurses are facing a fitness to practice probe after the death of a five-year-old boy at a flagship care home for disabled children, The Independent can reveal.

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), the UK’s nursing watchdog, initially found there was no case to answer over the death of Connor Wellsted, who suffocated in his cot in 2017 while being cared for at the Children’s Trust facility in Tadworth, Surrey.

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