Several staff at a daycare centre in Amsterdam Noord have been suspended after a recording of two screaming toddlers alone in the playground was placed online.

The toddlers were left outside alone for eight minutes, crying to be let in, according to the concerned neighbour Nara Georgieva who filmed the incident and placed it on her Facebook page.

The owners of the Flamingo crèche, which caters for 26 children, said they were shocked by the incident, which broke all their guidelines.

Amsterdam’s child services department has also launched an investigation, the Telegraaf reports.