Safeguarding Evidence Review
This is an updated examination of the academic and professional qualifications publicly claimed by Carrie-Anne Ridsdale, also known publicly as Jayne Price, the founder and director of Jayne’s Baby Bank C.I.C.
It follows our earlier article, Fact-Checking Carrie-Anne Ridsdale’s Alleged ‘BA Hons Nursing’ Degree, published on 20 June 2025. Since then a great deal more archive material has become available, including documents Ms Ridsdale has published herself.
The purpose is not to repeat the earlier investigation. It is to build a dated record of what was claimed, what documents were produced, how the descriptions changed, and what remains unsupported by the material reviewed. Every quotation below is reproduced verbatim from Ms Ridsdale’s own public posts, videos and profile pages, spelling included.
Level 1 and Level 2 Health and Social Care certificates, college coursework, and a claimed start at Cardiff University.
Repeated public claims of a nursing degree, a biochemistry diploma, a PhD, midwifery and health-visitor training.
The nursing qualification is re-described three times on the Facebook profile, ending as “Former Student Nurse”. On 13 and 14 September 2026 a run of new certificate images is posted: two “different” 1996 certificates that are the same photograph, and a 1996 GCSE certificate carrying an OpenAI generation watermark. On 17 September an email said to be from Cardiff University names a degree Cardiff does not award for that programme.
Ms Ridsdale has publicly presented herself as having a background in nursing, midwifery, health visiting, education, social care and biochemistry. These claims have appeared repeatedly over several years and form part of the public presentation of the Baby Bank and the expertise attributed to its operator.
Why the qualification question matters
Claims of nursing, health, safeguarding and child-related training carry weight when made by somebody operating a community-facing organisation dealing with families and children. This article therefore examines those claims carefully, without treating study, training, qualification and registration as interchangeable.
Where the documents come from
The certificate, portfolio and CPD images reproduced here were published by Ms Ridsdale on her own Facebook pages. The profile wording is taken from archived captures of the page (archive.ph, 13 January, 30 January and 6 September 2026). Video quotations are from transcripts of her own Facebook Lives. Nothing here was obtained privately.
Chronology of Claims and Documents
Public Claim
Crosskeys College
In a post dated 5 January 2026, Ms Ridsdale wrote:
“1996 I went to Crosskeys college – why would I be in college in 2016 when I was at Cardiff University studying a nursing degree? Fun fact … I also went to Ystrad Mynach College too.”
The post states that she was not at college in 2016. The two documents that follow are dated March and May 2016.
Document
Health and Social Care Certificates
Three Pearson Edexcel documents dated 14 March 2016 are in the name Jayne-Anne Price: a certificate headed Competence Based Qualification (CBQ) for the Pearson Edexcel Level 1 Award in Health and Social Care (QCF), and two Certificates of Unit Credit, one Level 1 and one Level 2. Ms Ridsdale published the photograph herself on 10 September 2026, in the same “Courses & Training” album described at the end of this chronology. In March 2016 she was posting under the name Carrie Anne, and the coursework she photographed two months later carries the name Carrie-Anne Ridsdale. The name on the certificates is examined below.
The main certificate gives the qualification number 500/5487/9 and the centre as The Learning Connection (041260). Every unit on both unit-credit documents is graded P (pass).
These are Level 1 and Level 2 Health and Social Care documents. They are not a nursing degree, a nursing diploma, a biochemistry diploma or a Level 3 qualification. They are examined in detail below.
Contemporary Record
Coursework Under the Name Carrie Anne
A Facebook post under the name Carrie Anne shows a bound assignment titled “Is Man Flu an Urban Myth?” with the name Carrie-Anne Ridsdale on the cover.
“It’s official! Man flu is not an urban myth! and I have 6 distinctions to prove it! Thanks guys for being my test subjects.”
This is the only contemporaneous record of “distinctions” in the archive. It shows college-level coursework being completed in May 2016, four months before a September university intake. It is not a nursing qualification.
Retrospective Claim
Acceptance to Cardiff University
In a video of 12 September 2025, Ms Ridsdale gave her fullest account of how she entered nursing:
“And 2016, I got accepted, well, I got accepted at South Wales University who also gave me, who also offered me a learning difficulties nurse position in the interview and I also got accepted to Cardiff University to study nursing. So, I chose Cardiff, started my nursing course.”
On 14 January 2026, commenting on her own Facebook Live, she wrote:
“I did my nursing degree in 2016”
A post of 10 June 2026 repeats the year: “I was accepted to Cardiff University 2016 to study adult nursing”. These are later accounts of what is said to have happened in 2016. No offer letter, enrolment record or student ID has been produced.
CPD Evidence
British Journal of Midwifery Study Days
Ms Ridsdale has published a photograph of three CPD certificates: two from British Journal of Midwifery “Current Issues in Midwifery 2019” study days at the Village Hotel, Cardiff (Perinatal mental health, Friday 17 May 2019, and Safer Maternity Services, Friday 29 November 2019) and one from a Journal of Health Visiting 2019 study day. Both midwifery certificates carry the same reference number, A009996. The name area is whited out in her photograph.
The published 2019 programme describes these as free study days with open registration, limited to 150 places per venue. A second, different image of these certificates, with names filled in and a fourth certificate added, was posted on 13 September 2026 and is examined below.
CPD is not the same thing as a degree.
A CPD certificate records attendance at a professional development event. Ms Ridsdale said as much herself on 7 February 2026 while reacting to this site: “So yeah that’s not my nursing degree. That’s additional CPD courses.”
First Training Claims
“I Am Trained in Midwifery, Nursing Adults … and Health Visiting”
The earliest statement about nursing in the archive, in a post setting out the organisation’s credentials:
“Childcare qualifications and I have received a great deal of training via the NMC and the local health and education boards in South East Wales. (Both know and support and folow us). I am trained in midwifery, nursing adults, elderly, chronically ill, and children’s nursing and health visiting. I am trained in children, behaviour and autism and learning difficulties education and care and nursing.”
“I also worked in sales, marketing and profit protection of major companies that trade world wide for 20 years. Until I became serious ill in 2012.”
The Nursing and Midwifery Council is a regulator. It maintains the register and sets standards; it does not deliver training to individuals. No degree, diploma or student status is mentioned in this post.
Career Claim
“My Caring and Nursing Careers”
“When I started my caring and nursing careers, I had the best advice I ever had off my supervisor of the care firm. … In my nursing interview I told them this and I was asked what I thought integrity ment.”
Degree Claim
“My Nursing Training and Having a Degree as Well”
“somebody who has worked in the health profession for, well, a long time, because I was a classroom assistant for a long time, and obviously with my nursing training and having a degree as well, then I am specifying that you need this and I will not take you on.”
This is the first statement in the archive that a degree is held.
Qualification Claim
Degree, Diploma and PhD
“I went to Uni at 39 and got my degree and diploma in nursing and bio chem! and now I’m doing a PHD and running a charity. I was accepted to every Uni I applied to with unconditiona offers.”
In this post the nursing degree and the biochemistry diploma are presented as already obtained, a PhD is described as in progress, and the age at entry is given as 39.
Student Account
“Studying to Be a Nurse”
“I needed 10 food banks to help my family while I was waiting on the tumor diagnosis. I was left in limbo. I was working two jobs and studying to be a nurse and then next thing I knew I’d collapsed on a ward on placement.”
Nine days after “got my degree”, the same period is described as “studying to be a nurse”.
Student Account
“As a Student on a Chemo/Haematology Ward”
“I spent time as a student on a chemo/haematology ward nursing cancer patients who had previously been smokers”
Age at Entry
“I Went to University at 36”
Sharing a health board recruitment post, Ms Ridsdale wrote:
“For all aspiring nurses – never to late – I went to University at 36”
Seven months earlier the age given was 39. Thirty-six is consistent with a September 2016 start for someone born in May 1980; thirty-nine is not.
Qualification Claim
“I Got a Diploma in Biochem”
“I got a diploma in biochem. I did it before my nursing.”
The sequence given is biochemistry first, nursing afterwards.
Qualification Claim
“I Am a Qualified Retailer and … Health and Social Care Practitioner”
“But I am qualified. I am a qualified retailer and I am also a qualified health and social care practitioner. I’ve got qualifications in education and I’ve also studied nursing. So, you know, I am qualified to discuss things like that.”
Nursing is described here as “studied”, alongside separate qualifications in retail, health and social care, and education.
Training and Illness Account
“Coming to the End of My Training”
“I was on, I can’t remember if it was placement five, six, it was coming to the end anyway, coming to the end of my training. And I hadn’t learned enough to know what was wrong with me on that cancer ward.”
“I’d already done a literature review. That’s what you do before your dissertation.”
This is the first account to place the illness on a placement ward and to number the placements. Earlier references to nursing training in the archive go back to July 2022 and are set out above.
Training Claims
Midwifery Hours and Health Visitors
“I do as part of my nursing training at Cardiff University and mandatory midwifery hours and labour ward and theatre hours. I also did mandatory training with the Health Visitors in Brynmawr.”
A placement, if it took place, demonstrates a period of training. It does not establish completion of a degree.
Professional-History Claim
“All These Qualifications Are Certified”
“I studied nursing, which included midwifery and health visitor training.”
“I was also empolyed by social services to work and care with thousands of individuals with mental health and disabilities with complex care needs. All these qualifications are certified.”
“I’ve even done a week of training in Cardiff mens prison!”
Training, employment and qualifications are described here as a single set of certified qualifications.
Multiple Qualification Claims
Nursing, Cardiff Prison and Biochemistry
“I have studied nursing with elements of midwifery, children’s nursing and social care. I’ve even spent a week in the bird cadge(if you know you know!) in Cardiff prison studying nursing! In my nursing interview I was given unconditional offers to every University I applied for and was offered Learnig Difficulties nurse position during the interviews. I also have a diploma in bio chemistry…”
Registration Argument
“You Don’t Have to Be Registered With the NMC to Be a Nurse”
“I am a qualified healthcare professional in several different ways, okay?”
“You don’t have to be registered with the NMC to be a nurse, okay? You have to be registered with the NMC to practice as a nurse in the UK. That’s two different things.”
Neither Carrie-Anne Ridsdale nor Jayne Price appears on the Nursing and Midwifery Council register (see our May 2025 check). The statement is that registration is unnecessary, not that registration is held.
Biochemistry Diploma
“Diploma, I Got. It Says on There.”
“I did a diploma in biochem to get in, which was really, really good because it took the A&P out of the studying. So you didn’t need to study the anatomy and physiology part of it because at degree level, because you already knew it.”
“I never said I had a PhD in biochem. … Diploma, I got. It says on there.”
The denial refers to a PhD in biochemistry. The 18 July 2023 post stated “now I’m doing a PHD”; no subject, institution or supervisor has been given for that PhD in any statement since.
Training Claim
Cardiff Prison
In response to our June 2025 article, Ms Ridsdale posted an undated photograph with the caption:
“Debunking another of Sherlocks false claims. … Is that a student nurse uniform I see? Waiting outside Cardiff Prison to do a week in the ‘bird cadge’ administering medication and treatments to prisoners as part of my training. One thing I am not is a liar.”
The prison week is mentioned five times between October 2024 and January 2026, consistently as a student placement. No placement record has been produced.
Full Chronology Given
Bursary, Placements and the Pandemic
“I was paid to study nursing as well. I had a bursary, a good bursary … And I got into nursing, guaranteed positions, you know, and I was offered learning difficulties nurse training after, which I think was a good thing for over 18 months. … And then obviously my illness had got worse and worse. I’d actually done placement on a hematology award”
“And then the pandemic hit and they wouldn’t let me go into the wards because I was seriously ill.”
Biochemistry Re-described
“It’s an Access to Biochem”
Reading this website aloud on camera, Ms Ridsdale said:
“Well, I got a PhD in biochem. No, I did a diploma in biochem and passed with distinction. There is no such qualification here at Cardiff. Okay, I didn’t study here at Cardiff. And I never said I did.”
“It’s an access to biochem. … That’s what got me in. That’s what got me into university.”
“I still had to do the exam, you fool. … I think I had 97 in my ANP.”
“I actually put the unconditional offers on Facebook.”
“I’ve already had a meeting with Trading Standards and proved this.”
Three things change here. The biochemistry qualification becomes an Access course, not a Cardiff qualification. The June claim that it “took the A&P out” becomes “I still had to do the exam”. And the unconditional offers are said to have been posted on Facebook; none appear in the archive of more than 2,000 videos and posts.
Why the Course Stopped
“I Didn’t Work Through Covid”
“I was too ill. They wouldn’t even let me go in the wards. And they were desperate for the nursing staff. They actually changed the old syllabus … What they did was put all the placements towards the end of the year. … I knew I could have been useful out there caring in the pandemic. But started the baby back instead.”
Profile Captures
The Degree Title Changes Three Times
See The Facebook Profile below. “BA Hons Nursing” becomes “BSC Hons Adult Nursing”, then “Bsc nursing at NHS” alongside “Former Student Nurse at Cardiff University”.
Employment Claim
“I Am Still Employed by a Health Board”
“I also studied Adult Nursing at Cardiff University for 3 years and I am Neurodivergent myself.”
“I am still employed by a health board. I don’t need validation from the health boards. They are my colleagues.”
No health board, department or role has been named. Every role on the September 2026 profile is prefixed “Former” except “Founder and Director”. Our October 2026 report, 8 NHS Bodies Asked, sets out when the claim first appeared and the questions it leaves open.
Status Before the Pandemic
“I Was a Student Nurse”
“Prior to the pandemic, I was a student nurse, and I got ill, and I wasn’t able to work on the wards because I was considered high risk. I felt very guilty that my colleagues were out there working hard.”
The same wording opens the sit-down interview embedded below.
New Album
“Courses & Training”
Two days before publication of this article, the Jaynesbabybank Registered – cic page added a Facebook album titled “Courses & Training”. It also contains the photograph of the three Pearson Edexcel certificates examined above, and eleven photographs captioned “British Journal of Midwifery Training Day CPD (Best buffet)”: buffet food, juice and fruit, study-day paperwork dated 2018, attendees seated in a lecture room and around a seminar table, a group beside a birthing pool, and a demonstration on a training mannequin. A twelfth photograph, captioned “Cardiff Uni – Maternity First Aid”, shows an empty lecture theatre with a “Maternity First Aid” slide on screen and a “Cardiff Uni” caption overlaid. Faces of other attendees have been obscured in the reproductions below.
The 2018 paperwork indicates attendance at a British Journal of Midwifery study day in 2018 as well as the two 2019 days for which certificates were published. Study days and a maternity first aid session are attendance events. Apart from the 2016 Level 1 and Level 2 certificates, the album contains no degree certificate, transcript, diploma, enrolment record or award of any kind in nursing, midwifery or biochemistry.
AI-Labelled Image
The CPD Certificates, Reissued With Names
The day after this article was published, the Jaynesbabybank Registered – cic page added a further image to the “Courses & Training” album. It is a four-panel composite of CPD certificates, and Facebook attached its “AI content” label to the post. Meta applies that label when it detects industry-standard AI signals in an image’s metadata or when the uploader discloses that AI was used.
The four panels are: Journal of Health Visiting Study Days 2019, “Development of the Child Aged 2”, Thursday 28 November, Village Hotel Cardiff, Ref A15423; Current Issues in Midwifery 2019, “Perinatal mental health”, Friday 17 May 2019, Ref A009996; Current Issues in Midwifery 2019, “Safer Maternity Services”, Friday 29 November 2019, Ref A009996; and Current Issues in Midwifery Study Days 2018, “Newborn Care”, Friday 25 May, Village Hotel Cardiff, Ref A009996. Every panel is made out to “Jayne Price, Cardiff University Student” in the same script, above the same signature “for and on behalf of MA Healthcare Ltd”.
This image differs from the photograph of the same certificates published in July 2025 in four respects:
July 2025 photograph
Name whited out
Three paper certificates, overlapping, photographed on a desk. The name area on the visible certificate is covered with a white mark. The Health Visiting title is cut off after “Development of the”.
September 2026 image
Name filled in
Four certificates in plastic sleeves, each fully visible, each bearing “Jayne Price, Cardiff University Student”. A 2018 “Newborn Care” certificate appears for the first time.
Name and date
“Jayne Price” in May 2018
Her personal profile posted as Carrie Anne until January 2019. The name Jayne does not appear in the public record until September 2020. The 2018 certificate is dated sixteen months before the last “Carrie Anne” post.
Platform label
Facebook: “AI content”
The July 2025 photograph carried no label. This image does.
Whether the label reflects metadata from an editing tool, a disclosure by the uploader, or Meta’s own detection is not visible from the post. What is visible is that a name which was redacted in 2025 has been supplied in 2026, on a document dated 2018, in a name not then in use, in an image the platform itself has flagged as AI content.
Attendance certificates, whatever the name on them.
Even taken at face value, these four documents record attendance at free, open-registration study days run by a publisher. They are not qualifications. Ms Ridsdale said so herself on 7 February 2026: “that’s not my nursing degree. That’s additional CPD courses.” The question raised by the 13 September 2026 image is not whether CPD attendance amounts to a qualification. It is why the same certificates now carry a name and a label they did not carry before.
AI-Labelled Images
1996 and 1999 Certificates, and the Same Photograph Twice
Within hours of the CPD image, three more posts were added to the “Courses & Training” album. Facebook attached its “AI content” label to each of the two image posts.
Post one. Two photographs, captioned “Years old these ones”. Each shows an RSA Examinations Board certificate in a plastic sleeve in a red folder on a carpet, made out to “Jayne-Anne Price”, “June Series, 1996 – Centre Number: 68369”, signed Martin Cross, Chief Executive. One reads “Initial Text Processing – Distinction”. The other reads “Word Processing 1, 2 & 3 – Distinction”.
Post two. One photograph of a BTEC Advanced General National Vocational Qualification in Health & Social Care, “with distinction”, awarded to “Jayne-Anne Price” by Gwent Tertiary College, July 1999, signed Dr Christina Townsend, Edexcel Foundation. Captioned:
“I forgot I did an extra year in college because I was unwell. Started in 1996 – 1999 finished. This was at Crosskeys. I had my community placement at Ty – Sign Baby Clinic. Additionally with my Auntie June at Oakdale Hospital who was a Registered Nurse.”
Post three, text only:
“My Mother asked … Does sherlock and the idiot followers want to see her O levels?? But actually My Mother went back to college to get her child minding qualifications and I forgot I went with her because she didn’t want to go on her own. I think it’s Cahe level 3 child minding ? I will get her to dig out the certificates.”
The two RSA certificates are one photograph
Two different certificates, photographed one after the other, produce two different photographs. The folder shifts, the sleeve catches the light differently, the page curls differently, the carpet moves. The two RSA images were compared pixel by pixel after conversion to greyscale.
Across the whole frame, 98.7 per cent of pixels differ by less than 20 levels, which is the noise floor of two JPEG saves of the same picture. The carpet, the folder, the sleeve reflections, the page curl and the signature are identical. The only region where the content differs is the award line, where “Initial Text Processing” sits in one image and “Word Processing 1, 2 & 3” in the other. The name line shows faint doubled outlines, meaning that text sits in a fractionally different position in the two files.
This is not an opinion about a name field. It is a measurement.
Two physical certificates cannot share one photograph. One of these images was made from the other by changing the award text, and the file was then posted as a separate certificate. Facebook’s AI label appeared on the post independently of this comparison.
What the 1999 certificate would be, if genuine
A BTEC Advanced GNVQ is a Level 3 qualification. It would be the “GMVQ level three in health and social care” described on 5 September 2025, and the first Level 3 document produced. It carries the same name problem as every other document in this album: “Jayne-Anne Price” on a certificate dated July 1999, when the public record shows Carrie-Anne Ridsdale, and it appears in an image the platform has labelled as AI content, posted alongside a demonstrably altered pair.
Two further points from the captions. The 5 January 2026 post said “1996 I went to Crosskeys college”; the 13 September 2026 caption now says 1996 to 1999, “an extra year because I was unwell”, which overlaps the 17 July 2026 claim to have been “employed from the age of 18-30” as a full-time classroom assistant from 1998. Information since received by this investigation puts the end of that job at about 2005, when she was about 25, and the role at level 1 care assistant (see our updated report on her school job). And the “CACHE Level 3 Award, Certificate and Diploma in Child Care and Education” listed on her profile under Works at is now described as her mother’s course, which she attended “because she didn’t want to go on her own”.
On file metadata.
Facebook strips camera and editing metadata from every upload and writes its own marker block, which includes the text “Photoshop 3.0”, into every image it re-encodes. That string appears on these files and on every other Facebook image, so it shows nothing about how they were made. The comparison above does not rely on metadata.
Watermarked Image
A 1996 GCSE Certificate in the Wrong Name and the Wrong School
A further certificate was posted late on 14 September 2026: a WJEC/CBAC General Certificate of Secondary Education for the “Arholiad Haf 1996 Summer Examination”. It certifies that JAYNE – ANNE, of Blackwood Comprehensive School, obtained eight subjects, two at A* and the rest at B. The surname is covered over with green highlighter. The forename is left visible.
She went to Oakdale Comprehensive School
The certificate names Blackwood Comprehensive School. She was a pupil at Oakdale Comprehensive School. This site holds her school photographs.
Blackwood Comprehensive is the school named on her own Facebook profile. A school is printed on a certificate by the awarding body, not chosen afterwards.
The name, again
The forename left visible is “JAYNE – ANNE”, the same form as on the RSA certificates posted the day before. This site holds a copy of her birth registration. It records the name Carrie-Anne Ridsdale.
Facebook did not flag this one. The generator did.
Unlike the 13 September posts, this image carries no “AI content” label. Submitted to OpenAI’s own verification tool at openai.com/research/verify, it returned:
“SynthID detected. We found a SynthID watermark that originated from OpenAI.”
A SynthID watermark is placed in an image when it is generated. It is invisible, and it survives re-compression, which is why it is still there after the file has been through Facebook.
The absence of a platform label is not evidence of authenticity.
Facebook missed this image. The watermark left by the generator was still in it.
AI-Labelled Image
An Email From Cardiff University Naming a Degree Cardiff Does Not Award
The Jaynesbabybank Registered – cic page posted a screenshot of an email, captioned “Awkward for the haters”, alongside four photographs of Ms Ridsdale in clinical uniforms. Facebook attached its “AI content” label to the post.
The email is headed “Your Replacement Certificate is on its way”, dated 17 September 2026, and opens “Dear Jayne -Anne”. It reads:
“I am pleased to confirm that your replacement hard copy certificates are on the way to you.
Your award of Certificate of Higher Education in Care Studies and Certificate of BSc (Hons) Nursing (Adult) may take up to 10 weeks.”
Cardiff’s adult nursing award is the BN (Hons), not a BSc
The Nursing and Midwifery Council monitored Cardiff University’s pre-registration nursing programmes at an event on 14 and 15 January 2015 and published its report in July 2015. The programmes monitored are listed as “Registered Nurse – Adult; Registered Nurse – Mental Health”. In its schedule of evidence the report names the programme:
“BN (Hons) Nursing (Cardiff Nursing Futures)”
The same page lists correspondence describing the course as the “Cardiff University-undergraduate Bachelor of Nursing for Registered Nurse – Child, Registered Nurse – Adult, Registered Nurse – Mental Health”. Adult nursing was a field of practice within the Bachelor of Nursing, not a separate degree. The report also records when that programme began:
“There have been no requests from students to change their field of practice since the BN nursing commenced in September 2012”
The words “BSc” do not appear anywhere in the report’s fifty-one pages.
The regulator, 2015
BN (Hons) Nursing
Cardiff Nursing Futures, commenced September 2012. Adult is a field of practice within it.
Her own photograph
Bachelor of Nursing (Hons)
The Student Portfolio cover she published reads “Bachelor of Nursing (Hons) / Adult Nursing Field of Practice”.
Anyone entering Cardiff adult nursing in 2016 would have joined the Bachelor of Nursing four years after it commenced, and would leave with a BN (Hons). Cardiff awards BSc degrees in many other subjects. What it did not award for this programme, on the regulator’s evidence and on the evidence of the portfolio she photographed herself, is a “BSc (Hons) Nursing (Adult)”.
The image itself
Two features of the screenshot are visible without any tool. In the Cardiff University logo the Welsh form “PRIFYSGOL CAERDYDD” is malformed, the final letters running into one another. The Android status bar across the top of the screen is also distorted. Generated images reproduce the appearance of logos and interface furniture without reproducing them correctly, and both defects are of that kind. Facebook’s “AI content” label was applied to the post independently of these observations.
Three uniforms, no certificate
The four photographs posted with the email show three different uniforms: a light tunic with dark trim in a monochrome photograph, purple scrubs, and theatre scrubs with cap and mask. Under the All Wales Dress Code student nurses wear purple, a point Ms Ridsdale made herself on 5 January 2026: “Green scrubs are used for theatre my darling not students. Students wear purple”. Theatre scrubs are issued to anyone entering a theatre, including students and visitors.
None of the five images in the post is a certificate.
An email about a certificate is not a certificate.
Taken at face value, this email says the documents are still to be printed and posted, and may take ten weeks. Ms Ridsdale has stated since 18 July 2023 that she “got my degree and diploma in nursing and bio chem”. On the evidence she has now produced herself, the degree certificate she has claimed for three years is not in her possession.
The Age Problem
Ms Ridsdale has given two different ages for starting university, and only one of them fits the 2016 start date she has repeatedly stated.
What she has said
Age and dates
“I went to Uni at 39” (18 July 2023).
“I went to University at 36” (25 February 2024).
“I’m Jayne. I’m 46.” (3 February 2026).
“2016, I got accepted … So, I chose Cardiff, started my nursing course.” (12 September 2025).
“1996 I went to Crosskeys college” (5 January 2026).
Public record
Companies House
The officer record for Jayne’s Baby Bank C.I.C. (company 16838920, incorporated 7 November 2025) lists director Jayne Price with a date of birth of May 1980.
That matches “I’m 46” in February 2026 and starting college at 16 in 1996.
Thirty-six fits 2016. Thirty-nine does not.
Born May 1980, Ms Ridsdale was 36 in September 2016 and turned 39 in May 2019. “I went to University at 36” (February 2024) matches a 2016 start. “I went to Uni at 39” (July 2023) does not, and cannot be reconciled with “I started my nursing course in 2016”. A 2019 start would be consistent with being “a student nurse prior to the pandemic” and with the 2019 CPD study days. A 2016 start would not: a three-year Bachelor of Nursing beginning in September 2016 ends in summer 2019, before the pandemic.
The Pearson Edexcel Certificates: A Closer Examination
The March 2016 documents are the only formal qualification certificates Ms Ridsdale has published. Their authenticity cannot be confirmed from the photograph, and one feature of them needs to be stated before the detail: the name.
What the certificate says
Printed on the document
Competence Based Qualification (CBQ)
Pearson Edexcel Level 1 Award in Health and Social Care (QCF)
Qualification Number: 500/5487/9
Centre: The Learning Connection (041260)
Date of achievement: 14/03/2016. Awarded: 14 March 2016
Certificate number: obscured in the published photograph.
Ofqual register
What the register says for 500/5487/9
Title: Pearson BTEC Level 1 Award in Health and Social Care
Level 1. Total credits: 7. Guided learning hours: 60.
Operational 1 October 2008 to 31 August 2021. Final certification 31 August 2022. Status: no longer awarded.
The qualification number identifies a genuine, now-withdrawn Pearson qualification, which gives Pearson a specific record to check. Three points arise from comparing the certificate with the register.
1. The credit total
The Level 1 Certificate of Unit Credit lists nine units:
That is 23 credits, stated on the document to have been “completed as part of” the Level 1 Award. The register lists the Award at 7 credits. Under the Qualifications and Credit Framework an Award was 1 to 12 credits and a Certificate 13 to 36. A learner can take more units than the minimum, so the figure alone does not show anything is wrong. Whether 23 Level 1 credits were certificated under qualification 500/5487/9 at centre 041260 in March 2016 is a matter Pearson can confirm from its records.
2. The title and the template
The register title is “Pearson BTEC Level 1 Award”. The certificate prints “Pearson Edexcel Level 1 Award”, on a template headed Competence Based Qualification, which Pearson uses for competence-based (NVQ-type) awards rather than BTEC awards. There may be an ordinary explanation in how Pearson printed legacy QCF certificates in 2016. Pearson has not been asked to confirm this.
3. The Level 2 document
The third document lists seven Level 2 units, HSC10 to HSC16, each of 3 credits (21 credits), all graded P, “completed as part of the Pearson Edexcel Level 2 Award in Health and Social Care (QCF)”. No qualification number is printed on it, and no separate Level 2 award certificate has been published.
Documentary distinction
A Certificate of Unit Credit records units represented as achieved. It is not the same document as a certificate showing that the overall qualification was conferred. For Level 1 both documents exist. For Level 2 only the unit record has been produced.
The name on the certificates
All three documents are in the name Jayne-Anne Price, with a date of achievement of 14 March 2016.
Name in use in 2016
Carrie-Anne Ridsdale
Her personal Facebook profile posted as “Carrie Anne” from February 2013 to January 2019.
The coursework photographed on 11 May 2016, eight weeks after the certificate date, has “Carrie-Anne Ridsdale” printed on the cover.
The name “Jayne” first appears in the archive with the “Jayne’s Mother & Baby Bank” page in September 2020.
This site holds a copy of her birth registration, which records the name Carrie-Anne Ridsdale.
Name on the documents
Jayne-Anne Price
A hyphenated form matching “Carrie-Anne”, with the surname of the later alias.
On 12 June 2025, asked on camera whether her name was Carrie, Ms Ridsdale replied: “No it’s not, it’s Jayne.”
The certificates were published on 10 September 2026, fifteen months after this site had identified her as Carrie-Anne Ridsdale. Three days later, CPD certificates dated 2018 and 2019 were republished with the name “Jayne Price” added, in an image Facebook labelled as AI content.
Awarding bodies certificate learners in the name registered by the centre at the time of enrolment. A certificate dated March 2016 in a name that does not appear anywhere in the public record until 2020 is therefore either evidence of a formal name change before 2016, evidence of the centre registering her under a different name, or evidence that the name on the document is not the name that was printed on it. Only Pearson, from the original certificate number, can say which. That number is the one part of the document that has been obscured.
Opinion, stated as such.
It is this site’s opinion, from the sequence of names above and the timing of publication, that the name field on these documents has been altered, and that image-editing tools capable of doing so cleanly are now freely available. That is an inference, not a finding. It would be settled in either direction by Pearson confirming what was issued under that certificate number, or by production of the originals.
Every unit is graded “P”
Sixteen units across both documents are graded P for pass. Ms Ridsdale has said she “passed with distinctions” (17 June 2025) and “passed with distinction” (28 September 2025). Those statements were about the biochemistry diploma, not these documents, but they are the only distinctions ever mentioned, and the only distinctions in the archive are the “6 distinctions” on the May 2016 coursework post.
Level 3?
Ms Ridsdale has also described “Advanced level 3 Health and Social Care” (January 2025), “a GMVQ level three in health and social care” (5 September 2025), and her profile lists “CACHE Level 3 Award, Certificate and Diploma in Child Care and Education” under Works at. Until 13 September 2026 no Level 3 document had been published. The BTEC Advanced GNVQ image posted that day is discussed in the chronology: it is in the name Jayne-Anne Price, dated 1999, labelled by Facebook as AI content, and was posted alongside two “different” certificates that are the same photograph.
Level 3 is also the grade she has given her school job. On video on 13 December 2024 she said: “I’m a teaching level 3 already.” Information received by this investigation, set out in our updated report on her school job, is that she was a level 1 care assistant in the autism resource base at Pontllanfraith Primary School, applied for a level 3 post there, and was not appointed. That information is not yet supported by documents.
On the photograph itself
The published image is a photograph, not a scan, and the certificate number on the main document has been blurred. A photograph cannot be authenticated, and a name field is the easiest part of a document to alter without leaving marks visible at this resolution. Verification needs the originals, or Pearson’s own record of what was issued to whom under the certificate number, centre 041260 and qualification 500/5487/9.
The Biochemistry Diploma
The statements about the biochemistry qualification, placed in date order:
July 2023
Degree and diploma
“I went to Uni at 39 and got my degree and diploma in nursing and bio chem!”
June 2024
Before nursing
“I got a diploma in biochem. I did it before my nursing.”
June 2025
To get in
“I did a diploma in biochem to get in … it took the A&P out of the studying.”
September 2025
Access course, not Cardiff
“It’s an access to biochem. … I didn’t study here at Cardiff. And I never said I did.”
September 2025
Exam still taken
“I still had to do the exam, you fool. … I think I had 97 in my ANP.”
December 2025
Attendance still required
“you still have to attend, because you have to attend every lesson, anatomy and physiology, but I didn’t need to revise the night before.”
Read in sequence, the description moves from a diploma obtained “at Uni” alongside the degree, to a pre-entry course taken elsewhere, to an Access course. An Access to Higher Education Diploma is a Level 3 college qualification designed for mature applicants. It is a recognised route into nursing. It is not a university diploma in biochemistry, and it would not exempt a student from any part of an NMC-approved programme, which is what the June 2025 statement described and the September 2025 statement withdrew.
The unanswered question is specific.
Where is the diploma, and who awarded it? A college name and a year would settle the matter in minutes.
The PhD
18 July 2023
“and now I’m doing a PHD and running a charity.”
17 June 2025
“I never said I had a PhD in biochem. … Diploma, I got.”
The 2023 post did claim a PhD in progress. The 2025 denial addresses a PhD in biochemistry specifically. No institution, subject, supervisor or registration for any doctoral study has ever been named, and the claim has not been repeated since 2023.
“Unconditional Offers” and the Learning Difficulties Nursing Claim
“I was accepted to every university I applied for with an unconditional offer.” (17 June 2025)
“I was also offered learning difficulties nurse position in the interview for the application process by the University of South Wales.” (17 June 2025)
“4 addition unconditional offers into Adult Nursing from other universities.” (17 July 2026)
The earlier article set out why unconditional offers for pre-registration nursing are unusual and why a university admissions interview is not an employment process. Ms Ridsdale said on 28 September 2025 that she “actually put the unconditional offers on Facebook”. They do not appear in the archive. No offer letter has been produced.
Cardiff University and the Degree Title
Her wording
Descriptions used
BA Hons Nursing
BSC Hons Adult Nursing
Bsc nursing at NHS
Studied Adult Nursing
Former Student Nurse
Her own photograph
Portfolio wording
Bachelor of Nursing (Hons)
Adult Nursing Field of Practice
Student Portfolio
Outstanding
Primary award document
No degree certificate, transcript, or graduation record has appeared in any material reviewed.
Cardiff University’s nursing degree is the Bachelor of Nursing (Hons), abbreviated BN (Hons). That is the title on the portfolio Ms Ridsdale photographed. It is not a title she has ever used for herself. The earlier article found no BA (Hons) Nursing in the university’s catalogue, and the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s 2015 monitoring report on Cardiff names the programme “BN (Hons) Nursing (Cardiff Nursing Futures)”, commenced September 2012, with adult as a field of practice within it. Neither “BA (Hons) Nursing”, “BSC Hons Adult Nursing” nor “BSc (Hons) Nursing (Adult)” is the award for that programme.
The portfolio is student material.
A Student Portfolio is issued to enrolled students to record placements and competencies. Photographing its cover is consistent with having been a student. It says nothing about whether the programme was completed.
The Facebook Profile: An Evolving Academic History
13 January 2026
BA Hons Nursing
“Studied BA Hons Nursing at Cardiff University”
30 January 2026
BSc Hons Adult Nursing
“Studied BSC Hons Adult Nursing at Cardiff University”
6 September 2026
Former Student Nurse
“Bsc nursing at NHS”
“Former Student Nurse at Cardiff University”
“Studied Adult Nursing at Cardiff University”
The January change followed our reporting that Cardiff offers no BA (Hons) Nursing. The September wording is the first time the profile has described a former student rather than a graduate. It also introduces “Bsc nursing at NHS”, which is not a qualification any NHS body awards.
The profile is not the qualification. It is evidence of how the qualification has been described at different points in time, and of the direction in which the description has moved.
Student Nurse or Graduate?
Across roughly ninety dated statements about nursing in the archive, running from July 2022 to September 2026, Ms Ridsdale describes being accepted, being paid a bursary, attending lectures, sitting an anatomy and physiology exam, doing placements in haematology, orthopaedics, maternity, the incontinence service, health visiting and Cardiff Prison, falling ill, and being kept off the wards when the pandemic began. She then describes starting the Baby Bank.
What she does not describe, in any of those statements, is graduating, receiving an award, registering with the NMC, or working as a nurse. The exceptions are two statements in 2023: “my nursing training and having a degree as well” (2 April 2023) and “got my degree and diploma in nursing and bio chem” (18 July 2023). Nine days after the second, she described the same period as “studying to be a nurse”. By September 2026 her own profile says “Former Student Nurse”.
Consistent with the material
A mature student who enrolled on an adult nursing programme, completed some placements, and left before completion through illness.
Not supported by the material
A completed nursing degree, a biochemistry diploma awarded by a university, a PhD, professional registration, or current employment by a health board.
The first is not discreditable. The second is what has repeatedly been claimed.
The Sit-Down Interview
“Prior to the pandemic, I was a student nurse, and I got ill, and I wasn’t able to work on the wards because I was considered high risk.”
In this account she describes herself as a student nurse immediately before the pandemic. It does not say the course was finished, and nothing else in the archive says so either.
Study, Training, Qualification and Registration
What Has Actually Been Produced?
Claimed
Qualifications and training described
A nursing degree (BA Hons, then BSc Hons, then BN portfolio).
A biochemistry diploma “with distinctions”.
A PhD in progress (2023).
Level 3 Health and Social Care; CACHE Level 3 Child Care.
Twelve years as a level 3 teaching assistant.
Midwifery, children’s, mental health and health-visitor training hours.
A week’s placement at Cardiff Prison.
Unconditional offers from every university applied to.
Current employment by a health board.
Produced
Documents actually published
Pearson Edexcel Level 1 Award certificate and Level 1 unit record (2016), in the name Jayne-Anne Price, unverified.
Pearson Edexcel Level 2 unit record (2016), in the name Jayne-Anne Price, unverified.
Three 2019 CPD attendance certificates, name redacted (July 2025); reissued as a four-certificate image with “Jayne Price” filled in and a 2018 certificate added, labelled by Facebook as AI content (13 September 2026).
The cover of a Cardiff University student portfolio.
One college assignment cover (2016).
Photographs in scrubs and at training venues.
Two RSA 1996 certificate images and one 1999 BTEC Advanced GNVQ image (13 September 2026), in the name Jayne-Anne Price, all labelled by Facebook as AI content; the two RSA images are the same photograph with the award text changed.
A WJEC 1996 GCSE certificate image (14 September 2026), forename Jayne-Anne, naming a school she did not attend, carrying an OpenAI SynthID generation watermark.
A screenshot of an email said to be from Cardiff University (17 September 2026), labelled by Facebook as AI content, naming an award Cardiff does not confer for that programme.
A “Courses & Training” album (10 September 2026): the three 2016 Pearson certificates, study-day attendees, catering, 2018 study-day paperwork, a birthing pool, a training mannequin, and a lecture theatre labelled “Cardiff Uni – Maternity First Aid”.
The qualification-document gap No degree certificate. No biochemistry diploma. No Level 3 certificate. No offer letter. No placement record. No employment record. This is a documentary observation, not a statement that the qualifications cannot exist. It is a statement that, after fifteen months of public challenge, none has been shown.
What Has Not Yet Been Shown
Not Produced
Completed Nursing Degree
No certificate, transcript or graduation record. Her own profile now says “Former Student Nurse”.
Not Produced
Biochemistry Diploma
Described since 2023 as a diploma, then as an Access course. No awarding body or college has been named.
Verification Open
Pearson Records
Certificates dated 2016 in a name not used until 2020, 23 credits against a 7-credit award, and a blurred certificate number: all checkable with Pearson from the original.
Not Produced
Health Board Employment
Claimed in April and June 2026. No employer, role or department has been named.
Not Produced
Unconditional Offers
Said in September 2025 to have been posted on Facebook. Not found in the archive.
Altered
The Two RSA Certificates
One photograph, two award lines. Measured, not inferred. See the 13 September 2026 entry.
Wrong Award
The Cardiff University Email
Names a “BSc (Hons) Nursing (Adult)”. The regulator and her own portfolio both give the award as BN (Hons). Facebook labelled the post AI content.
Watermarked
The 1996 GCSE Certificate
Names Blackwood Comprehensive; she was a pupil at Oakdale Comprehensive. OpenAI’s own tool reports a SynthID generation watermark.
Unverified
The AI-Labelled CPD Image
Names appear on certificates that were redacted in 2025, including “Jayne Price” on a 2018 document. The originals, or confirmation from MA Healthcare Ltd, would settle it.
Not Produced
Anything in the September 2026 Album
Attendees, catering, paperwork, a birthing pool, a mannequin, a lecture theatre and the 2016 Level 1 and 2 certificates. No diploma or degree in nursing, midwifery or biochemistry among them.
Unresolved
The Start Date
“At 39” is 2019. “In 2016” is 36. Both cannot be true.
Conclusion
The academic history Ms Ridsdale presents has been built up over several years through many different descriptions, and it has changed under scrutiny. A BA became a BSc. A degree obtained became a course studied. A diploma at university became an Access course elsewhere. A PhD in progress disappeared. An exemption from anatomy and physiology became an exam sat and passed.
There is material consistent with having been a student or an attendee: a portfolio cover, CPD attendance, a coursework post, photographs in scrubs, and, as of 10 September 2026, an album of study-day and lecture-theatre photographs. There is no material consistent with having qualified.
The March 2016 Pearson documents cite a real, withdrawn qualification, but they cannot be taken as genuine. They carry a name she did not use until four years after the date printed on them, they record 23 credits against a 7-credit award, and they appear on a template and under a title that differ from the register. Those are questions for Pearson, and the certificate number needed to ask them has been obscured.
The day after this article went live, the CPD certificates were republished with names filled in and a 2018 certificate added, in an image that Facebook itself labelled as AI content. Whatever produced that label, the effect is the same as with the Pearson documents: a name that was not in use on the date printed has appeared on a document that was previously shown without one.
Within hours, two 1996 RSA certificates and a 1999 BTEC certificate were added, again labelled as AI content. The two RSA images are one photograph. Everything in them is identical except the line naming the award. That is no longer a question of what a document might show. It is a document that has been changed and posted twice as two.
The next night a 1996 GCSE certificate followed, naming a school she did not attend. Facebook did not label it, but OpenAI’s own verification tool reports a SynthID watermark originating from OpenAI.
Three days later came an email said to be from Cardiff University, again labelled by Facebook as AI content, announcing replacement certificates for a “BSc (Hons) Nursing (Adult)”. Cardiff’s award for that programme is the Bachelor of Nursing, as the regulator recorded in 2015 and as the portfolio cover she photographed herself states. A fortnight of documents has produced no degree, no diploma, and three more uniforms.
The central issue is no longer whether qualifications have been claimed.
It is whether any of them can be demonstrated from a primary record: a degree certificate, a diploma, an offer letter, an employer, or an awarding body’s confirmation.
Everything that would settle the question is in Ms Ridsdale’s possession if it exists. Nothing that would settle it has been produced.
Corrections supported by verifiable evidence will be reviewed and published.
Until then, this archive does something simpler: it records what was said, when it was said, how it changed, what was produced, and what those documents actually show.
Archive methodology: This article distinguishes between contemporaneous records, later retrospective statements, profile descriptions, certificates, coursework, training evidence, CPD, and completed qualification documents. Quotations are verbatim from Ms Ridsdale’s public posts, videos and profiles, including original spelling. The post archive runs from 2013 and the video transcript archive from 2022; the first reference to nursing training in either is dated 9 July 2022. Register data is from the Ofqual Register of Regulated Qualifications and Companies House as of 12 September 2026. Updated 13, 14 and 17 September 2026 to add the certificate and email images posted on those days, and in October 2026 to add references to our reports on her school job and on the NHS. The SynthID result is the output of OpenAI’s own public verification tool, reproduced verbatim. Cardiff programme titles are quoted from the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s monitoring review report on Cardiff University, monitoring event 14-15 January 2015, published July 2015. The RSA image comparison was made by converting both files to greyscale and subtracting them pixel by pixel; the difference maps are reproduced unretouched apart from a four-times brightness amplification. Related reporting: the June 2025 fact-check, the school-job report (updated October 2026), the deleted-posts review, the NHS report, and the dossier.
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