Baby Brook Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.6 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Preston for babies from 4 months up to school age, open 07:45 to 17:45, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in July 2023. Open since 2015, with 48 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
We now offer the government funding hours from 9 months old to 4 years; From September 2025 we will also offer the working family funding, 30 hours, from 9 months old.
What childcare usually costs in Lancashire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Lancashire from the Department for Education's 2025 provider survey. No national data holds what an individual nursery charges, so ring and ask.
Places, hours and the day
Who they take, when they are open, and what a day there includes.
Where it is
PR5 8HLWhat the inspector found
One grade is one visit. A run of them tells you whether it has been good for years or has only just got there.
Ofsted inspector, 6 July 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children love coming to this calm, inviting and spacious nursery. They are happy and well cared for by the nurturing staff. Children, including children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), learn well. Children develop new knowledge because of the skilful help of staff. They keenly explore the range of meaningful learning activities that staff provide, and babies are eager to investigate how their bodies move, such as when they pull themselves up on the soft play furniture.
Children feel safe at the nursery; for example, babies wrap themselves around their favourite key person. Staff successfully teach older children how to act safely. For example, children learn to hold hands and stay close to adults when undertaking educational visits to the local primary school and shops.
Children live up to leaders' and staff's high expectations. They know the rules of behaviour; they strive to try hard like Elsa elephant and look after resources like
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- improve staff knowledge of how to teach children the sounds that letters represent when they are ready to learn to read.
- 6 July 2023Good
- 15 March 2018Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for Baby Brook Nursery
- What it costs
- Meals
- Nappies
- Waiting list
No dataset holds any of this. Two parents telling us the same thing puts it on the page for whoever looks next.
What to ask them
Some of this is above, from the setting or from parents, and it can go out of date. The rest is in no dataset anywhere. Either way it is worth ten minutes on the phone.
- What does it cost, all in? What is on top: meals, nappies, late pick-up, and what happens if you are late.
- How do you apply my funded hours? Whether they stretch them over the year, and the minimum days you have to book.
- Do you have a place for a child of my age now? Baby rooms fill first and waiting lists are common.
- Who would my child's key person be? And how long have the staff been there. No dataset holds this and it matters more than anything above.
- Can I visit at a busy time? Mid-morning on a weekday tells you far more than an empty room after hours.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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