In November 2011, Ofsted dropped a bombshell on Busy Bees @LPS. The Herefordshire pre-school had been expecting a good, maybe an outstanding, verdict and few of its staff saw any reason to expect anything less. But instead of the positive result they envisaged, Ofsted tore into their safeguarding procedures and delivered an inadequate rating.
The shock was still sinking in when the manager resigned that same day, leaving the pre-school leaderless with less than six months to fix its problems and the stain of an inadequate rating against its name.
“It was horrible,” recalls Emma Davis, a supervisor at Busy Bees @LPS at the time. “Nobody wanted to come to work. We knew there was a lot of work that had to go into making us better and it just seemed like a massive mountain to climb. We thought: Can we even do it? Is it even possible?”
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