The group's Kiddi Caru Nursery in Harlow, Essex was inspected in February and found to be inadequate due to ‘significant weakness in leadership and management, putting children’s health, safety and learning at serious risk of harm’, according to Ofsted.
Prior to the latest inspection, the nursery had held an outstanding grade for 17 years, since its very first inspection in 2005.
In a statement, Grandir, which bought Kiddi Caru nurseries in 2017, states, ‘We are hugely disappointed that on the day of the inspection, Ofsted graded the nursery as Inadequate. We strongly disagree with this inspection outcome and believe the information in the report to be unfair and unfounded and therefore we subsequently submitted a formal complaint and appeal.
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