First Steps at Cansfield
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Wigan for children from birth to 8+, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £60.00 a day, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in August 2022. Open since 2014, with 41 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Full Day £60.00
One published rate, dated January 2026. What you pay depends on the days you need and the funded hours you can claim.
Funded hours
Worth knowing. Whether you are funded or non-funded, you can spread your funded hours over 51 weeks. Alternatively you can just choose to attend term time only.
What childcare usually costs in Wigan
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Wigan 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
WN4 9TPWhat 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, 23 August 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children thrive at this very friendly, safe and welcoming nursery. They enjoy attending and part from their parents and carers with ease at the door on arrival.
Once inside, children become deeply engaged and enthusiastic in their play. The activities planned by staff are based on children's interests. For example, staff and children happily sing counting songs about their favourite superheroes together in the garden. This reinforces their previous learning about numbers.
Children develop close bonds with staff, which supports them to become confident individuals. Staff have high expectations for children's learning and behaviour. This helps children to prepare for their future learning and the eventual transition to school. Children persevere with tasks that at first seem challenging. For example, children concentrate intensely when cutting into the thick rinds of lemons in the play kitchen. They encourage each other to succeed and feel a sense of accomplishment when they complete the task. Staff skilfully introduce new vocabulary, such as 'rind', 'peel', 'seed' and 'sour', which the children repeat and use in their own speech. They delight and giggle when tasting lemons. This increases their motivation and eagerness to play and learn.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- help staff to develop their teaching skills further to allow children enough time to think and respond to questions n provide further opportunities for children to learn about the diverse world in which they live.
- 23 August 2022Good
- 6 October 2016Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for First Steps at Cansfield
- Youngest age taken
- 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.
- Is £60.00 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.
- 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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