Little Companions Leicester
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.6 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Leicester for from 2 years up to school age, open 08:30 to 15:00, 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 They do not publish prices, so ask.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 2016, with 96 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
We accept government-funded childcare entitlements for eligible 2-year-olds and all 3 and 4-year-olds, including the universal 15-hour offer and the 30-hour extended entitlement for qualifying families.
What childcare usually costs in Leicester
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Leicester 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
LE2 0NEWhat 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, 7 February 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Staff create a supportive and secure environment for the children. They take time to find out about the children and their families. They learn about what the children enjoy so that they can prepare to welcome them into the nursery. For example, staff working with toddlers know they like to play with dolls. This preparation helps children to settle and be ready to play in the friendly and welcoming nursery. Staff know what helps to comfort each child if they become upset during the day.
Staff provide children with opportunities to develop their physical skills. Pre-school children use their fine muscle skills to squeeze tweezers to pick up spaghetti.
Toddlers enjoy using their mark making skills to colour Chinese balloons and spread glue and glitter onto their pictures. Children of all ages play together outside and learn to climb, slide, and throw balls. Outdoors, staff remind children of some safety measures, for example, to sit down when they go down the slide. Indoors, children learn to control their bodies and to move in different ways as they join staff in music and movement sessions. Staff help children to understand the rules to follow, such as when they patiently explain that children need to line up by the door to be counted before they go outside to play.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- develop the planning and implementation of adult-led activities to support all children to be focused and concentrate n strengthen practice so that staff support children to develop their own creative thoughts and ideas.
- 7 February 2024Good
- 22 May 2018Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for Little Companions Leicester
- 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.
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