All four settings run by Claire's Children’s Nurseries had their registrations suspended last month following a safeguarding investigation, and Ofsted has now issued a notice of intent to cancel them.
The nurseries involved are Claire’s Flying Start, Claire’s Little Bears, and Claire’s Newport Nursery in Barnstaple, and Claire’s Little Robins in Northam, which employed 100 members of staff between them.
The BBC reported viewing the nursery’s official notice of suspension, which Ofsted does not make public.
Owner and manager Claire Symons had employed her partner Shane Connolly, who had a criminal record for battery and theft, at the nurseries, according to the BBC. Mr Connolly had also received a caution for six counts of willful neglect in 2005 which Ms Symons had not disclosed to Ofsted.
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