Cheeky Monkeys Childcare
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Barrow-In-Furness for babies from 3 months up to school age, open 07:30 to 17:30, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in September 2022. Open since 2010, with 52 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Funded FREE places for 2, 3 and 4 year olds (up to 15 hours a week), now also available from the term after 9 months old for working families. We are offering 30 hours for those 3 and 4 year olds entitled from September.
What childcare usually costs in Westmorland and Furness
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Westmorland and Furness 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
LA13 9PAWhat 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 September 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Relationships between staff and children are positive. On arrival, children continue to separate easily from parents at the entrance door. Younger children enjoy using two-way communication devices to talk to older siblings in other rooms throughout their day. Children are happy and settled. They behave well and enjoy their time at this calm and inviting nursery. During action songs, children, including those with additional needs, listen to instructions and follow these accurately. They actively celebrate each other's achievements through gestures such as clapping. Leaders recognise that children have become much less familiar with aspects such as road safety since the pandemic. They are taking time to teach children about the steps that they need to take to keep themselves safe when out and about.
Leaders and staff create an ambitious curriculum that focuses on what children know and enjoy. Babies explore their appealing surroundings freely and confidently. They vocalise and babble continuously during play. Younger children are imaginative. They use resources such as a book and two bowls to create their very own 'hamburger'. Older children recall events such as finding a spider, and use mathematical language to describe the special features. They work together with others to recreate a 'rescue mission' during pretend play. Children attending the holiday club extend on their early writing skills from school when sketching 'a snail with an alien headband'.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support all staff to build fully on babies' and younger children's developing pronunciation skills, to assist their early language development most successfully n strengthen the current performance management systems and identify individual and precise targets for staff that focus intently on raising their good teaching practice further.
- 6 September 2022Good
- 20 April 2022Inadequate
- 27 October 2017Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Cheeky Monkeys Childcare
- 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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