Kinder Park Nursery Services Limited
OutstandingTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Carlisle for babies from 6 months up to school age, open 08:30 to 17:30, 5 days a week. £9.00 an hour, and they take the funded hours. Rated Outstanding by Ofsted in July 2022. Open since 2015, with 50 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
50 weeks a year.
| Age | Session | Hourly | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 months to 5 years6m to 5y | £9.00with funding £13.50with funding £18.00with funding £22.50with funding £27.00without funding £31.50without funding £36.00without funding £40.50without funding £63.00without funding £67.50without funding £72.00without funding £81.00without funding £85.50without funding | – | |
| All ages | – | £9.00Additional hours |
Extras
Charged on top of the session rate.
- £4.55 Two Course Cooked Lunchper meal
- £9.00 a session Lunch Hour
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
15 or 30 hours, funding for children from 9 months.
Worth knowing. Sessions 9.00am to 12 noon, 1.00 to 4.00pm or 9.00am to 4.00pm free of charge. Additional hours charged at £9.00 per hour. Funded hours can be stretched across the year over 50 weeks.
What childcare usually costs in Cumberland
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Cumberland 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
CA1 1LJWhat 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, 13 July 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Leaders and staff place children at the very heart of what they do. The family orientated key-person system contributes towards staff's heightened knowledge of each child and their family. Special video messages sent to children by their key person during any closure periods have helped to preserve the exceptional bonds between children and staff. Children are extremely safe, happy and settled. They enjoy every minute of their time at this wonderful nursery.
Leaders and staff are inspirational. They draw upon their expert knowledge of different theoretical approaches to create their own unique curriculum that has children's best interests at heart. Babies listen to stories with increasing attention.
They develop understanding of positional language when playing with vehicles in the sand. Younger children follow instructions precisely during games, such as 'stop and start'. They quickly express their ideas when reading books about food. Older children use language associated with addition and subtraction when making dough. They confidently recall numbers one, two and three in Italian. Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are imaginative. They pretend to be characters, such as 'Sonic', when whizzing between the inspiring play spaces.
- 13 July 2022Outstanding
- 9 August 2016Outstanding
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for Kinder Park Nursery Services Limited
- 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 £9.00 an hour 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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