daycare centre

British

noun

Also called (esp in Britain): day nursery. an establishment offering daycare to preschool children, enabling their parents to work full time or have extended relief if child care is a problem

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An investigation has been launched after a grandfather mistakenly took home the wrong child from a daycare centre in Sydney, Australia.

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Officials say Renny Antonio Parra Paredes, 38, helped run a drug trafficking operation from the Divino Niño daycare centre.

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Rosa said local drug dealers had warned her not to open her daycare centre just three blocks away from Divino Niño in 2017 because they said it would impede their own business.

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"We allege the defendants poisoned four babies, and killed one of them, because they were running a drug operation from a daycare centre," Manhattan US Attorney Damien Williams said on Tuesday.

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"The defendants poisoned four babies and killed one of them because they were running a drug operation from a daycare centre," Manhattan US Attorney Damien Williams said at a news conference on Tuesday.

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