{"id":50638,"date":"2026-10-10T15:40:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T15:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/camden-council-was-warned-about-paedophile-nursery-worker-years-before-arrest\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T15:40:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T15:40:23","slug":"camden-council-was-warned-about-paedophile-nursery-worker-years-before-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/camden-council-was-warned-about-paedophile-nursery-worker-years-before-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Camden council was warned about paedophile nursery worker years before arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vincent Chan went on to abuse children after being cleared of \u2018significant concerns\u2019 following council-overseen inquiry<\/p>\n<p>A paedophile nursery worker was cleared by an investigation overseen by a local authority three years before he was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>In February, Vincent Chan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/feb\/12\/london-nursery-worker-sexually-abused-children-jailed-vincent-chan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was jailed after pleading guilty to 56 offences<\/a>, including assault by penetration on three-year-old girls in his care at a Bright Horizons nursery on Finchley Road in north-west London. After his conviction, prosecutors described him as a \u201cprolific sexual predator\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2026\/oct\/10\/vincent-chan-paedophile-nursery-worker-camden-council-warning-years-before-arrest\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vincent Chan went on to abuse children after being cleared of \u2018significant concerns\u2019 following council-overseen inquiry A paedophile nursery worker was cleared by an investigation overseen by a local authority three years before he was arrested. In February, Vincent Chan was jailed after pleading guilty to 56 offences, including assault by penetration on three-year-old girls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 19:54:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}