CCN Acol Nursery
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in London for babies from 3 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 They do not publish prices, so ask.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 January 2025. Open since 2012, with 50 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Sington and Montpelier Nurseries offer 2, 3 and 4 year old funded places and Acol Nursery offers funded places from 9 months old. Parents are able to benefit from the 15 and 30 hours government funding. Camden offer additional funding for families. The 2 Year Old Scheme (15 hours) and the Extended Camden Offer for 3 year olds (30 hours).
What childcare usually costs in Camden
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Camden 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
NW6 3AGWhat 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, 29 January 2025 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Staff place a clear emphasis on building strong relationships with families and children from the start at this nursery. The plan settling-in sessions which demonstrate a commitment to understanding children and help to ease their transitions. Staff recognise the importance of children feeling emotionally secure as a foundation for their successful play and learning. The well-established key-person system helps all children to form strong and secure attachments with the caring staff. This approach promotes children's emotional well-being and enables staff to plan individual learning opportunities.
Staff place an emphasis on children's language development. They provide children with a sense of being valued, safe and supported as they grow and learn. They build positive relationships with parents and carers and provide detailed information about the curriculum and children's learning. For example, parents receive regular newsletters about children's learning across the nursery. This guide details the intended learning outcomes for each room and how parents can support their children's learning at home.
Staff ensure that all children have ample opportunities to play outdoors and to be physically active. They encourage children's physical activity. Babies learn to develop their physical skills, such as when they climb soft blocks and negotiate small steps. Older children navigate space as they ride bicycles around the garden area and join in music and movement sessions in the garden. Children develop their gross motor and balancing skills well.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support staff to enhance the curriculum for communication and language even further, such as by giving children more time to form their thoughts and ideas when asking questions n review staffing arrangements to ensure that children always benefit from consistently high-quality practice.
- 29 January 2025Good Safeguarding: Yes
- 12 February 2019Good
- 20 May 2016Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for CCN Acol Nursery
- What it costs
- Meals
- Nappies
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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