Little Footprints Nursery Limited
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.7 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Leicester for children from birth to 8+, open 07:00 to 19:00, 7 days a week. £29.00 a day, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in December 2022. Open since 2008, with 75 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Minimum 2 days a week, price list dated 2017.
| Age | Full day | Session | Hourly | Weekly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2-5 years2y to 5y | – | – | £15.002-5 years | – | |
| All ages | £29.00After school care £35.00Before and after school care £50.00Monday - Friday All meals Included £55.00Monday - Friday All meals Included £60.00Monday - Friday All meals Included £65.00Monday - Friday All meals Included | £36.00Morning 9.00 - 13.00, 4 hrs £40.00Afternoon 12.00 - 18.00 or Morning 8.30 - 13.00, 5 hrs £44.00Afternoon 12.00 - 18.00 or Morning 8.00 - 13.00, 6 hrs £48.00Morning 7.00 - 13.00, 6 hrs | – | £135.00Before and after school care £145.00Monday - Friday Part Times £175.00Monday - Friday £195.00Monday - Friday £215.00Monday - Friday £235.00Monday - Friday |
Before you start
One-off charges to take a place.
- £35.00 registration feenot refundable
- £135.00 to £175.00 Retainer FeePart Time
Extras
Charged on top of the session rate.
- £5.00 per 15 minutes Late pick upsevery 5 minutes
- £15.00 an hour Additional HoursAdvance booking only
- £20.00 Late payment
Funded hours
NEG Funding For All 3 & 4 Year Olds.
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
LE5 6RAWhat 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.
- 6 August 2026 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 16 December 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are provided with daily opportunities to be physically active in the nursery garden in all weathers. Staff support children's increasing independence. They help and encourage toddlers to learn how to put on their coats, hats and boots. Staff support babies and toddlers to ride bicycles with pedals, and steer and move sit-on toys. They show children how to control the bicycles, so that they can avoid obstacles. Staff play alongside children, sharing bicycles with them. Lots of laughter can be heard as they play together and race each other.
Children are learning how to stay safe. Staff talk to them about the need to walk carefully on the frosty ground, as it will be slippery. Children explore the frost using toys and their fingers to make marks in it. Children comment about how cold the frost feels on their fingers. At circle time, pre-school children talk about the change in season and the weather. They excitedly talk about the snow that fell earlier in the week. Staff give children gentle reminders that they need to listen as others talk. When the children become over excited, the staff count backwards from five to give the children time to calm and refocus.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- enhance arrangements for the monitoring and supervision of staff, to provide staff with precise feedback and targets that will help them develop their childcare knowledge and teaching practice n deepen staff's understanding around providing a sequenced curriculum, in order to help children to make the progress they are capable of.
- 16 December 2022Good
- 16 May 2017Good
- 31 October 2013Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Little Footprints Nursery Limited
- 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.
- Is £29.00 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.
- 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.
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