Chatterbox Private Day Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Dudley for babies from 6 months up to school age, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in September 2023. Open since 2000, with 38 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Time for Twos (up to 15 hours for some two year olds in Dudley); 30 hours of free childcare for working families in England with 3 and 4-year-old children, 38 weeks, 1,140 hours per year.
What childcare usually costs in Dudley
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Dudley 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
DY2 0JTWhat 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, 25 September 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Staff know how to build positive attachments with children. For example, they offer children cuddles, reassurance and praise as they play alongside them. This helps children to feel relaxed and safe and engage in new experiences. Staff successfully support children to follow the simple rules. Children are confident and behave well.
Staff plan a broad range of activities and experiences that support children's development across all the areas of their learning. They use a range of effective teaching strategies to support children's communication and language. For instance, the two- and three-year-old children thoroughly enjoy a collage-making activity. Younger children are engrossed as they watch the glue dribble from their glue spreaders. During such activities, staff use commentary to extend the younger children's understanding of language. They introduce new vocabulary to enable the older children to describe the materials they are using.
Children have lots of opportunities to build on their mathematic skills. For example, children count the pine cones as they fill and empty the buckets on the weighing scales. During such times, staff promote children's knowledge of number and compare weights. During water play, children join in and sing a song about five little ducks. Staff encourage the children to count the plastic ducks each time one is removed. They encourage the children to join in with the repeated refrains in the song. Staff provide babies with a variety of activities that promote exploratory and sensory play.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- make even better use of the next steps identified for individual children's learning and development and increase the potential for children to make rapid progress n enhance children's understanding of the wider community and each other's diverse cultures and lifestyles.
- 25 September 2023Good
- 5 January 2023Needs improvement
- 1 June 2017Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Chatterbox Private Day 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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