Dukes and Duchesses
OutstandingTakes funded hours★ 4.4 on GoogleBirth to 5Open for decades
A day nursery in Liverpool for babies from 9 months up to 5 year olds, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £82.00 a day for over 2, and they take the funded hours. Rated Outstanding by Ofsted in August 2025. Open since 2003, with 80 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
51 weeks a year.
| Age | Full day | |
|---|---|---|
| Under 2birth to 2y | £82.00Under 2 | |
| Over 22y to 5y | £82.00Over 2 |
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
30 hours of Government funded childcare per week after their child turns 9 months old.
Worth knowing. Stretched over 51 weeks.
What childcare usually costs in Liverpool
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Liverpool 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
L1 4JSWhat 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 August 2025 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children thrive at this exceptionally nurturing and dynamic nursery. Staff are highly trained and wonderful role models. They have extremely high expectations of what all children can achieve. They create a beautifully vibrant and inviting environment for children to explore and learn. Children benefit from a highly ambitious and innovative curriculum that captures their curiosity and passion for learning and discovery. Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND)
receive excellent support. They benefit from strong partnership working with a wide range of early years professionals. Consequently, children love attending the nursery. They behave incredibly well and make excellent progress.
The central ethos of the nursery is nurturing children's creativity and giving them a rich set of awe inspiring experiences. For instance, children engage in a wide variety of different learning projects and initiatives to foster their language and literacy skills and knowledge of the world. For instance, children of all ages participate in a project to experience 100 different books before they leave the nursery. Staff uses these experiences to help children to develop a love of reading from a very young age.
- 29 August 2025Outstanding Safeguarding: Yes
- 22 January 2020Outstanding
- 16 January 2015Outstanding
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Dukes and Duchesses
- 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.
- Is £82.00 a day still the rate? 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
This one is first. Tick it and one or two others to see them side by side.