Steve Taylor, owner of Winchcombe Farm Day Nursery in Warwickshire (right), filed the request after being downgraded by Ofsted from ‘good’ to ‘inadequate’. The judgement has led to a 90 per cent drop in online bookings and the nursery losing £70,000.
Ofsted’s response shows that of the 691 Stage 1 complaints made between April 2012 and March 2013, only four judgements (0.58 per cent) were changed or declared void. Of 138 Stage 1 complaints upheld, or partially upheld by the inspectorate, just three per cent of judgements (four) were altered.
Of the 111 Stage 2 complaints, 34 were upheld or partially upheld, and nine per cent of those (three) saw their judgements changed or declared void.
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