A ‘rogue’ Ofsted report which downgraded an Outstanding nursery to ‘inadequate’ has been ruled unlawful and ordered to be deleted by a high court judge.
In what is believed to be the first judicial review win by an early years setting, the court heard about a catalogue of blunders by the watchdog, which inspected the nursery – Old Co-operative Day Nursery in Gotham, Nottinghamshire – after receiving a complaint from a member of the public.
Mr Justice Peter Coulson found the inspector, Joanne Gray, had acted beyond her powers by conducting an investigation into the complaint, which alleged that a child was momentarily in the road during a staff-supervised walk.
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