{"id":424236,"date":"2025-09-14T17:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T17:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/424236\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T17:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T17:45:11","slug":"inadequate-sheffield-nature-nursery-closes-its-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/424236\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Inadequate&#8217; Sheffield nature nursery closes its doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An online petition started by parents, in response to the risk of the nursery closing earlier this year, received more than 1,400 signatures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A statement alongside the petition said the report from Ofsted was not accurate and did not &#8220;reflect the true quality of care provided&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said: &#8220;The inspection was not carried out appropriately for a forest school setting, with criteria applied that are more suited to standard indoor nurseries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This led to an &#8220;unfair and unbalanced assessment&#8221;, the petition added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to Sheffield City Council, Forest School Kindergartens had made its decision to close the nursery on 29 August before the publication of the second Ofsted report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Dawn Dale, head of education, said the authority &#8211; which was not connected to Ofsted &#8211; had been working closely with the nursery to manage the closure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dale said: &#8220;Our priority has been to ensure children attending the setting continue to be well cared for, have access to learning and remain safe while at nursery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council emphasised it had not cut the nursery&#8217;s early years funding after the inadequate rating, despite that being a statutory requirement after such a rating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An online petition started by parents, in response to the risk of the nursery closing earlier this year,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-424236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115203900982382862","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}