The wife of Health Secretary Humza Yousaf has dropped legal action against a nursery accused of discriminating against their young daughter. Nadia El-Nakla raised legal proceedings against Little Scholars Day Nursery in Broughty Ferry, Dundee, after the Care Inspectorate upheld a complaint in November 2021 that she and her husband made against the facility.
After a joint investigation with the Yousafs, The Record exclusively revealed that the SNP politician had pressed the watchdog to establish whether there had been discrimination on grounds of “either ethnicity or religion” – claims which the nursery vehemently denied.
He alleged that while they were told there were "no available spaces" for their daughter Amal, then aged two, a white friend was told days later that there were places available for her two-year-old son. Nadia El-Nakla was seeking £30,000 in damages over the alleged discrimination.
