Chatterbox Day Nursery & Out of School Club
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Ludlow for babies from 3 months up to school age, open 08:00 to 17:30, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in February 2022. Open since 2009, with 64 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
We have 15 and 30 hours of government funded nursery grants available.
What childcare usually costs in Shropshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Shropshire 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
SY8 1HXWhat 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, 22 February 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
During the COVID-19 pandemic, children continue to arrive and be collected at the nursery gate. Children arrive happily and settle well into play with staff who are warm and caring. This helps children to feel safe and secure.
Children make independent choices about the toys and resources they want to play with. They sit to build a roadway for their cars to drive along. Children are confident to ask staff for help and staff provide this readily. Others have fun using one-handed tools to transport gravel to various containers. This helps children develop their hand-to-eye coordination and strengthen their physical skills.
Children become fully involved in their play outdoors. They begin to learn about and experience the weather. Children watch how the branches on the trees move.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- strengthen the arrangements and consistency of supervision of staff, to focus more precisely on raising the quality of their practice to the highest possible level n build on the already good relationships with parents and consider ways for them to contribute their views to the self-evaluation and help identify further improvements.
- 22 February 2022Good
- 2 October 2017Good
- 8 June 2017Inadequate
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Chatterbox Day Nursery & Out of School Club
- What it costs
- 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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