Inspectors arrived at my nursery only days before Christmas to carry out an unannounced inspection. I felt that they disrupted the running of the nursery and bullied the staff, reducing two of them to tears. I made a formal complaint to Ofsted because I felt the inspection was spurious. The inspectors had not requested sight of relevant documentation, or asked questions of the senior staff, preferring to bombard the student with questions about the management and running of the nursery, which she was not qualified to answer.
Ofsted printed a report criticising us. The staff were demoralised and I started to doubt my own perception of what is expected of a nursery. I decided to look around and compare nurseries.
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