We ended up getting a £50 Amazon Fire 7 tablet for that use case in the end, because despite restoring the ipad to factory settings and setting everything up fr

We ended up getting a £50 Amazon Fire 7 tablet for that use case in the end, because despite restoring the ipad to factory settings and setting everything up from scratch, it was still crashing in the streaming apps. The Fire 7 is slow but works for the desired use case fine(and even has expandable storage, so I can just download loads of shows off netflix for the kid to watch without internet access).