Faces kids club (Brentwood) ltd
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.9 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Brentwood for from 2 years 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 They do not publish prices, so ask.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 January 2023. Open since 2009, with 50 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
15 and 30 hour funded places available.
What childcare usually costs in Essex
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Essex 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
CM15 9DAWhat 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, 5 January 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children receive a warm welcome from staff. They hang their coats on their pegs and are ready to start their day. Children are happy and confident and have developed a true sense of belonging.
Children have access to an environment that is exceptionally well-thought-out and the activities and resources on offer are interesting and inviting. For example, they take part in an obstacle course, taking turns and cheering on their friends. Children negotiate and balance on the steppingstones, weave in and out of tyres and learn to throw bean bags at targets. They are learning to be supportive of their friends and develop their balance and coordination.
Children make their own choices and are encouraged to be independent. They choose where and what they want to play with. Children use their imagination as they role play being teachers with staff. They learn the letters in their name and practise writing and mark making on easels. Children have recently been interested in cars and trains. Leaders and staff have adapted these activities and provided the children with tracks fitted to the wall. Children push the cars and watch them move from track to track as they descend.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- provide more effective opportunities for all staff to discuss their professional development n help all staff to be consistent in reminding children of the rules and boundaries of the setting.
- 5 January 2023Good
- 31 May 2017Good
- 10 April 2013Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Faces kids club (Brentwood) ltd
- 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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