Little Oaks Day Nursery
Good★ 4.7 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Malvern for children from birth to 8+, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They do not publish prices, so that is the first thing to ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in February 2024. Open since 2010, with 96 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 Worcestershire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Worcestershire 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
WR14 1GQWhat 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.
- 27 March 2024 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 6 February 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are happy in the nursery. On arrival, they settle in quickly to play with their friends. Staff build warm and nurturing relationships with children, who regularly go to them for cuddles. This helps children to feel safe and secure in their care. Children enjoy being with staff and readily include them in their games, such as when building towers together. Staff add the bricks at the top of the very high structures. They giggle together when their tower finally falls. Children independently choose the resources that interest them and decide on their direction of play. Staff make adaptations to arrange the play environments, so that all children can explore and learn.
Children behave well, toddlers respond well to staff's gentle reminders to use their good manners while the oldest children readily say please and thank you in response to staff and when speaking with their friends. Children enjoy learning and have many opportunities to practise what they have learned. For example, they access tools and resources for themselves, such as scissors, with support from staff to make snips in their paper. The nursery curriculum is designed to continually build on what children know and can do. Children gain the skills and knowledge they need to prepare them for their next stage in learning and their eventual move on to school.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- build further on the methods used to help those children in need of additional support to develop their communication and language more rapidly n provide staff with the opportunities to build confidence and strengthen the knowledge gained from training, so that it is kept current.
- 6 February 2024Good
- 16 August 2022Outstanding
- 6 July 2015Outstanding
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Little Oaks Day Nursery
- What it costs
- Funded hours
- 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
None of this is in any national dataset and this setting has not published it, which is exactly why it is worth asking.
- What does it cost, all in? What is on top: meals, nappies, late pick-up, and what happens if you are late.
- Can I use my funded hours here? 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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