Carmena Christian Day Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.6 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in London for babies from 6 months up to school age, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in August 2023. Open since 1990, with 43 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Up to 30 hours of funded childcare per week, over 38 weeks of the year, from the term after their child turns 9 months old until they start school; 15 hours funded childcare for 3 and 4 year olds; funded places for some 2 year olds.
Worth knowing. Funding may be stretched across more than 38 weeks of the year by using fewer hours each week, subject to availability and the nursery's funded childcare offer. Parents must apply for a childcare code and renew it regularly to keep their funded place. For those 3-year-old in receipt of 15hours funding pay £5.00 per week during term-time.
What childcare usually costs in Wandsworth
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Wandsworth 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
SW16 1NTWhat 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, 18 August 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children have close relationships with staff in this homely nursery. Staff value each child highly and interact positively with them, for example, they smile and use a gentle tone of voice. Staff know children's likes and dislikes, which they use to provide activities that children enjoy. Staff have high expectations of children and use praise to motivate them to behave in positive ways. Children behave well.
The curriculum is wide and interesting. Children develop a good understanding of the world. For instance, staff plant flowers with children and teach them how things grow. Staff teach children the names of different insects and how they live.
Children develop good physical skills. For example, they balance well on rockers and practise climbing across frames.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- develop children's problem-solving skills further, particularly for children aged between two and three years n strengthen children's awareness of oral hygiene further.
- 18 August 2023Good
- 13 February 2018Good
- 23 October 2017Inadequate
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Carmena Christian Day Nursery
- What it costs
- 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.
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