Footsteps Day Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.5 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in London for babies from 6 months up to school age, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £96.78 a day for all Ages, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in February 2025. Open since 2015, with 70 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Daily rate: · £ 96.78
One published rate, dated 1st April 2026. What you pay depends on the days you need and the funded hours you can claim.
Funded hours
15 hours Childcare Entitlement and 30 hours Childcare Entitlement.
Worth knowing. Weekly consumables charge £16.50 per full funded day.
What childcare usually costs in Waltham Forest
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Waltham Forest 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
E4 7BAWhat 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, 27 February 2025 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Leaders and staff offer a warm welcome to children and families. They describe children's safety and emotional well-being as their 'top priority' and provide highly attentive care. This helps children to develop secure bonds right from the start.
Children demonstrate that they feel happy and secure at the nursery. For instance, babies snuggle up with staff to share their own 'all about me' books. Pre-schoolage children proudly point out their individual drawers where they store their work and belongings. Staff have high expectations for children's behaviour. They model kind and positive interactions and help children to understand their feelings well.
Children benefit from staff's consistent guidance. They show high levels of respect for others and their behaviour is excellent.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- develop opportunities for children to explore different materials freely, to help to develop their ideas about how to use them and what to make.
- 27 February 2025Good Safeguarding: Yes
- 10 April 2019Good
- 12 April 2016Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Footsteps Day Nursery
- Meals
- Nappies
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 £96.78 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
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