Educare For Early Years (Radcliffe)
Good★ 4.6 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Manchester for children from birth to 8+, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They do not publish prices, so that is the first thing to ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in August 2023. Open since 2015, with 100 places.
What you might pay
This setting does not publish its fees, and no national dataset holds them. This is what childcare costs across the council, as a starting point for the call.
What childcare usually costs in Bury
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Bury 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
M26 1AJWhat 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, 14 August 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Leaders have worked with staff and other agencies to make the required improvements in the setting. Leaders now have effective systems in place to ensure staff's workload is manageable. Staff now have more time to spend with the children delivering the intended curriculum. Staff have attended targeted training to help them provide a better quality of education for all children who attend. Most staff have also attended specialist training to help them support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities. As a result, all children make consistent progress from their starting points.
Leaders have high expectations for what children can achieve. The intended curriculum, in the main, is delivered well. Staff take time to get to know children from the outset. In addition, they ensure children are well prepared for any room changes they undertake throughout the setting. All children, including those who are very new to the setting, are happy, settled, and have strong attachments to their key person. Children arrive full of smiles and confidently wave goodbye to their parents. Babies seek out staff, by holding out their arms. Staff quickly react by encouraging and enticing babies to move and take their first steps. Toddlers take staff by the hand and lead them to the exploratory trays. Here they experiment by using all of their senses. Staff model how to hold a brush and encourage children to have a go. Staff introduce positional language, such as 'on, in' and 'under' as children search for items in an exploratory basket. Pre-school children demonstrate patience and understanding as they play cooperatively in the
'construction area'. Additionally, they demonstrate their good critical thinking skills as they work out how to make a tower of blocks balance.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- shape and adapt planned activities, so that all children's learning needs are met and where needed, provide extra challenge n continue to embed the current arrangements for staff supervision and coaching to ensure staff receive incisive feedback that helps then to raise their quality of practice to the highest levels.
- 14 August 2023Good
- 24 January 2023Needs improvement
- 22 August 2017Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Educare For Early Years (Radcliffe)
- What it costs
- Funded hours
- Youngest age taken
- 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
None of this is in any national dataset and this setting has not published it, which is exactly why it is worth asking.
- What does it cost, all in? What is on top: meals, nappies, late pick-up, and what happens if you are late.
- Can I use my funded hours here? Whether they stretch them over the year, and the minimum days you have to book.
- Is there a place for my child's age? 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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