Just for Starters Day Nursery Limited
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Sutton Coldfield 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 They do not publish prices, so ask.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 March 2023. Open since 1993, with 49 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
15 hours funded childcare, 30 hours funded childcare.
Worth knowing. Subject to availability; Funded hours are stretched over the whole year for consistent care and easier budgeting. We also offer limited places of term time grant only contracts.
What childcare usually costs in Birmingham
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Birmingham 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
B74 4RGWhat 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 March 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children settle well. They are happy, safe and engaged. Children start their day in smaller groups before fully submerging themselves into the larger learning environment. This means that children of all ages and abilities play safely together.
Children benefit from high-quality experiences within a purposefully planned environment. For example, children use books as a reference to create butterfly prints. This helps to build on their existing knowledge of the insects they found while outdoors, including their colours.
To further reduce the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders and staff work in close partnership with parents to ensure that all children make good progress from their starting points. They plan a wealth of opportunities for parents and the community to contribute towards the delivery of the curriculum, such as litter picking with children and teaching children their home language. This positively heightens children's social and friendship-building skills.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- continue to embed improvement plans to ensure that practice further builds on children's outcomes n review staff practice to provide children with even more opportunities to test their ideas and promote their independence.
- 21 March 2023Good
- 17 August 2017Good
- 5 December 2014Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Just for Starters Day Nursery Limited
- 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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