Nursery able to reopen thanks to temporary home

A children's nursery forced to close after its building was condemned has reopened after moving to a temporary home.

Westcott Tots, on Westcott Street, Hull, shut earlier this month after Ofsted raised concerns about the "safety and suitability" of its premises.

Now the nursery has been given the use of a room in nearby Holderness House for at least the next three months.

Stacie Moxon, the chair of the nursery's committee, described the move as "amazing".

"[We can't see] the light at the end of the tunnel just yet," she said.

"However, it's just a massive relief and a big weight off my shoulders that we're able to still provide the service to the children, because I know how important childcare is for some of the parents.

"So to be able to continue... just gave us that breathing room so that we can go on to what I call phase two and try to source a building."

Staff and supporters got the room ready over the weekend and the site has been registered with Ofsted.

The building on Holderness Road is the former home of philanthropist Thomas Ferens, who left it to the community when he died in 1930.

Ms Moxon said the move would provide "breathing room" while the nursery raised money to build a new facility on the site of its former home.

"We're doing lots of fundraising and outreach and trying to find how we can start to build," she said.

"And so we've been allowed three months at the moment in Holderness House and then hopefully we've used that time to find something else to put back on the original site."

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