Lavender Farm Day Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.0 on GoogleBirth to 5Open for decades
A day nursery in Oldbury for babies from 9 months up to 5 year olds, open 08:00 to 17:30, 5 days a week. £65.00 a day, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in July 2025. Open since 2024, with 133 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
| Age | Full day | Session | |
|---|---|---|---|
| All ages | £65.00 £75.00term time only | £7.00Breakfast Club £15.00Afterschool Club |
Before you start
One-off charges to take a place.
- £50.00 Depositdeducted from final invoice providing one month's notice is given in, not refundable
Extras
Charged on top of the session rate.
- £5.00 a day Late payment feein the event of fees being outstanding, up to 5 working days
- £15.00 per 15 minutes Late collection feeif children are not collected before the end of their session time
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
15 or 30 hour funded sessions.
Worth knowing. Funding wrap around: For children accessing 15 or 30 hour funded sessions, we offer additional wrap around hours. Please ask management about wrap around costs.
What childcare usually costs in Sandwell
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Sandwell 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
B68 9QRWhat 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, 22 July 2025 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Staff are genuinely warm and affectionate in nature at this nursery. Children are greeted with friendly smiles. Staff create a calm environment for children, which helps them to feel settled and happy. They stay close to children who are new to the nursery and provide extra emotional comfort to those children. This means strong attachments are formed with children from the earliest opportunity.
The curriculum throughout the nursery is ambitious and well-sequenced. Children have opportunities to build on their existing skills and extend their abilities in different areas of learning. Staff are skilled at implementing the curriculum, planning suitable activities that allow children to practise the skills they need to develop further. The learning opportunities provided are exciting and interesting.
This helps to maintain children's attention and develop their concentration.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- review the organisation of activities and routines to further improve experiences for children n strengthen the deployment of staff to ensure that children's needs are always met.
- 22 July 2025Good Safeguarding: Yes
Still missing for Lavender Farm Day Nursery
- Meals
- 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 £65.00 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.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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