 Subsequently, the Steiner Academies in Bristol and Frome have also been judged inadequate by Ofsted, because of concerns over safeguarding and bullying, and a number of private Steiner schools have also been judged inadequate.Overall, several Waldorf schools in the UK have closed in the last decade due to their administrations' failure to adhere to state-mandated standards of education (e.g.required levels of literacy, safety standards for child welfare, and mistreatment of special needs children).