K&K Childcare
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Ambleside for babies from 3 months up to school age, open 08:00 to 17:30, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in February 2024. Open since 2002, with 75 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Government funded places are available for children from 9 months to 4 years.
What childcare usually costs in Westmorland and Furness
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Westmorland and Furness 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
LA22 9DHWhat 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, 19 February 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children form secure attachments with the kind and nurturing practitioners who care for and educate them. For example, babies reach out their arms smiling as they are received by their key person on arrival. Older children confidently wave goodbye and bounce in enthusiastically. Children's attitudes and behaviours are good. Practitioners are skilled in helping children share and take turns. They are calm and extremely patient and explain and show children how to share using ageappropriate language. Consequently, children play harmoniously together and behave well. They show they feel emotionally safe and secure and, as a result, they are ready to learn.
Children display a positive attitude to learning and persevere as they try to master new skills. For example, babies learn to feed themselves, while older children learn to manage tongs to self-serve their own snack and master the tricky spaghetti onto their forks at lunchtime. Children take pride in their achievements as practitioners support them to build up their resilience and independence.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- strengthen partnership working with parents, so that their ideas and views are better used to fully evaluate and improve practice and provision effectively n support staff to use the effective strategies in place more consistently to help all children to fully enhance their learning experiences.
- 19 February 2024Good
- 3 April 2018Good
- 24 July 2014Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for K&K Childcare
- 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.