Footsteps Day Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.8 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 January 2025. Open since 2017, with 58 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
E17 8PJWhat 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, 21 January 2025 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Staff know children in the nursery very well. When children first start, staff take time to learn about their interests, home lives and stages of development. This helps children to settle in comfortably. A strong key-person system focuses on children's well-being and personal growth. Children are happy at the nursery. They grow and form good bonds with staff because of staff's warm, caring and thoughtful interactions. Children's behaviour is good. Staff set clear expectations, which they explain to children at the start of each session. Children confidently remember to share, take turns, listen and use good manners. The nursery has a calm and focused atmosphere, with all children playing well together.
Managers and staff are committed to helping all children to make the best progress possible. They follow a progressive curriculum, which focuses on what children need to learn next, considers their interests and prepares them well for transition to school. Staff prioritise supporting children's communication, language, social skills and independence development. They adjust their support to help children with their language development, using tools such as visual aids and signs. This helps children to express their feelings and communicate their needs effectively.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- review group activities to maximise all children's learning.
- 21 January 2025Good Safeguarding: Yes
- 3 April 2019Good
- 1 November 2018Inadequate
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 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.
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