Nursery World - Nursery group resigns its Ofsted registration before safeguarding investigation concluded

A nursery group has resigned its registration with Ofsted amid an ongoing investigation by the inspectorate into safeguarding concerns within the settings.

Leaping Lambs, a nursery group of five settings, has resigned its registration with Ofsted

Ofsted confirmed to Nursery World that Leaping Lambs, which operated five nurseries within Bristol and Somerset, has resigned its registration.

The nursery group decided to resign its registration before Ofsted’s investigations concluded.

Local reports suggest that the nursery group’s owners have liquidated the business as they could not afford to keep the settings afloat while Ofsted continued its investigation into safeguarding concerns. However, the business is currently still listed as ‘active’ on Companies House.

Leaping Lambs registration was suspended on 12 August after Ofsted found that children ‘may be at risk of harm’.

It followed a regulatory visit the day before (11 August) when the inspectorate found that the provider was ‘not meeting some of the requirements.’ It served the provider a ‘welfare requirements notice’, setting out actions that the provider must take by 9 September, including:

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