Mr Yousaf and his wife, Nadia El-Nakla, have complained to the Care Inspectorate, the sector’s regulator in Scotland, and asked it to investigate whether the nursery had discriminated on the basis of either ethnicity or religion.
The couple allege that Little Scholars in Broughty Ferry near Dundee refused to offer places to three children with Muslim names, including their daughter Amal, but did offer places to children with Western-sounding names.
In a thread on Twitter, Mr Yousaf said it was ‘not a step my wife and I have taken lightly. After our nursery application for our daughter was refused a second time, my wife asked her White Scottish friend to put in an application for a child the same age. Within 24 hours of refusing our application my wife's friend's was accepted.
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