Leeds nursery ordered to urgently improve as inspectors find 'unacceptable behaviour' - Ofsted report

A nursery in Leeds has been ordered to make urgent improvements by visiting Ofsted inspectors.

Eden Park Nursery, located on Oakhurst Mount, Beeston, received an ‘Urgent improvement’ rating in all six inspected categories during an Ofsted visit on July 2 this year.

Nurseries are rated in the categories of achievement, behaviour, attitudes and establishing routines, children's welfare and wellbeing, curriculum and teaching, inclusion and leadership and governance.

This was the nursery’s first official visit since being registered in November 2024.

“Children with SEND are not included in the planned activities, which are not adapted for their needs,” the education watchdog said.

“They lay on the floor or hide behind high chairs. Children's behaviour disrupts activities and other children are unable to be involved with the learning and look around aimlessly instead. Leaders have not identified a named person to take the lead on the work of SEND.”

Despite this, children are comfortable at the nursery, according to the report and come in happily to staff who are “kind and patient.” Children wave at visitors with a smile, inspectors said.

The report added they enjoy cuddles with kind staff and the children enjoy spending time with peers.

However, children “do not progress in their learning” at Eden Park Nursery and are not supported to develop their knowledge and skills, the inspectors ruled.

They found leaders do not plan the curriculum effectively to promote children's development in all areas of their learning. They have not ensured that the key-person system is effective and parents have not been informed of their child's key person.

Inspectors added: “Leaders and practitioners do not respond to behaviour, such as children disrupting activities, and this hinders children's learning. Practitioners do not respond when children pull resources off a board during an activity about feeling objects.

“Children are persistently disrespectful to others and practitioners do not support children to understand why some behaviours are unacceptable. They do not receive clear expectations of behaviour, and do not learn how to respect others.”

The provider fails to have effective oversight of the leadership of the setting, according to the report. Leaders and practitioners do not receive supervision, coaching, mentoring and training to ensure that they have the knowledge to provide a quality education for all children.

Inspectors found risk assessments are “not undertaken” to ensure spaces like outdoors are safe for children to play. The outdoor play area had seeds on the floor during the visit that have fallen from a cherry tree, inspectors saw children pick these up and put them in their mouths.

Implementation of the curriculum and children's routines is “ineffective to promote development in children's learning.”