Lilliput Day Nursery (Spalding) Limited
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.2 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Spalding for babies from 9 months up to school age, open 07:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £6.00 an hour, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in June 2023. Open since 2013, with 75 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Hourly rate for attendance outside of the funding entitlement: £6 per hour (breakfast, snacks and drinks are included in the hourly rate).
One published rate. What you pay depends on the days you need and the funded hours you can claim.
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
Funded hours are offered as term time only (15 or 30 hours per week) or stretched 51 weeks per year (12 or 22 hours per week).
Worth knowing. Funded hours are provided as per entitlement guidelines and are deducted from monthly invoices before other charges are added.
What childcare usually costs in Lincolnshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Lincolnshire 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
PE11 1TWWhat 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 June 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children show positive relationships with staff. For example, children in the baby room squeal with excitement when they look at staff through coloured windows on outdoor equipment. Parents appreciate how staff give children cuddles when they first start attending, to help them settle. Children are supported by staff to have a sense of belonging in the nursery. This includes children who speak English as an additional language. For example, meals are added to menus to reflect food from children's cultures. Older toddlers receive gentle reminders from staff to use good manners when they ask for food, encouraging them to be polite.
Children have opportunities to be physically active. In the baby room, staff supervise children well when they access soft play equipment to promote their safety. They praise children when they slide down ramps, which results in children clapping their hands to show their own sense of achievement. This helps to encourage a positive attitude to learning. Children in the pre-school room are excited to join in planned activities to help develop their listening and large-muscle skills. For example, staff give children instructions to move their bodies in certain ways, such as to point their toes and bend their knees. Pre-school children develop their small hand muscles and solve problems when they are given keys to open locks.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- offer all parents ideas and suggestions about how they can continue to support their children's learning at home n help staff to implement strategies discussed at staff meetings to support younger children to understand the importance of oral hygiene - support staff to find ways of how to maintain older toddlers' focus when they read them stories at group times.
- 22 June 2023Good
- 20 October 2017Good
- 16 May 2014Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Lilliput Day Nursery (Spalding) 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 £6.00 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.
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