LADN Tilbury Ltd
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.2 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Tilbury for children from birth to 8+, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in April 2023. Open since 2021, with 60 places.
What you might pay
This setting does not publish its fees, and no national dataset holds them. This is what childcare costs across the council, as a starting point for the call.
What childcare usually costs in Thurrock
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Thurrock 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
RM18 7QZWhat 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, 18 April 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children arrive happily and are eager to get involved in the activities on offer to them. The atmosphere is calm and welcoming. Children have formed strong bonds with the staff, who they smile and laugh with during play. Children play well with each other and have formed friendships. They are kind, considerate and polite to one another. For example, they help their friends take their shoes off if they are struggling. Children in the younger room are taught to share and take turns with their friends, while children in the older room do this independently and proudly tell the staff when they have shared with a friend. Staff are good role models. They encourage and praise the children during the day.
All children make good progress from their starting points. This includes children with special educational needs and/or disabilities and those in receipt of additional funding, such as early years pupil premium. Children's individual needs are supported through well-planned strategies, and adaptations are made to ensure all children can access all aspects of the curriculum. Staff identify potential areas of need and use funding well to support children to make the best possible progress.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- strengthen the quality of staff interactions with children to help them challenge and extend children's learning more effectively as they play n build on staff questioning techniques to enable children to have more time to think, respond and demonstrate what they know.
- 18 April 2023Good
- 3 November 2022Inadequate
Rated Good or Outstanding at 1 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for LADN Tilbury Ltd
- What it costs
- Youngest age taken
- 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.
- Is there a place for my child's age? 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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