Nursery penalised for not being ethnically diverse enough. Angry parents have blasted Ofsted, the Office for Standards in Education in the UK, after it downgraded a top rural nursery for failing to teach three-year-olds about ethnic diversity.

The education watchdog even penalised Town and Country Kiddies Nursery in Lincolnshire for not having enough pictures of black and Asian people on the walls.

In a report, inspectors criticised the  nursery, which caters for children aged from eight-weeks to 11 years, for failing to teach youngsters about other cultures.

A mum, who did not want to be named, stormed: “Just because the majority of the kids are white shouldn’t be used as a stick to beat the  nursery  with.

Ofsted downgraded the nursery from ‘outstanding’ to ‘good’.

hat-tip Stephen Neil