Little Swans Day Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.7 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Birmingham for babies from 9 months up to school age, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £70.00 a day, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in March 2024. Open since 2002, with 122 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
52 weeks a year.
| Age | Full day | Session | Hourly | Weekly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All ages | £70.00 | £55.00Morning or Afternoon, 5 hrs | £10.00extra hours | £102.0015 HOURS streched over 52 weeks £110.0030 HOURS streched over 52 weeks £158.0015 HOURS streched over 52 weeks £166.0030 HOURS streched over 52 weeks £214.0015 HOURS streched over 52 weeks £222.0030 HOURS streched over 52 weeks £261.0015 HOURS streched over 52 weeks |
What a funded hour still costs
Funded hours cover the childcare. These are charged alongside them.
- £15.00 a week Enhanced Provision Package - 15 hours AM / PM sessionsfunded place for 15 hours term time only, includes Snacks, enhanced provision, extra curricular
- £20.00 a week Enhanced Provision Package - 15 hoursfunded place for 15 hours term time only, includes Meals, Snacks, enhanced provision, extra
- £30.00 a week Enhanced Provision Package - 30 hoursfunded place for 30 hours term time only, includes Meals, Snacks, enhanced provision, extra
Funded hours
15 and 30 hours, stretched over 52 weeks.
Worth knowing. Additional charges for funded hours only: Enhanced Provision Package charges apply for funded places (15 hours AM/PM £15/week, 30 hours £30/week, 15 hours 2 days £20/week). Funded hours cover childcare only; meals, consumables, and extra-curricular activities are not included.
What childcare usually costs in Birmingham
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Birmingham 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
B25 8LTWhat 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.
- 23 April 2025 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 7 March 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are happy and thrive in this nurturing environment. Staff greet children and parents as they arrive, and they enjoy listening to children as they tell them what they have been doing outside of the nursery. Children are eager to become involved in activities and settle quickly into the nursery day. Staff plan and implement an interesting curriculum which covers all aspects of learning. Staff encourage children and skilfully support their learning. Children enjoy being creative. Younger children put glue onto foam eggs and carefully dip the eggs into glitter. Staff support their emerging language and introduce words such as 'sparkle'
and 'shiny'. They encourage children to name the colour of the glitter they are using. Children are mesmerised as they watch the glitter sparkling as they turn the eggs around in their hands. Staff encourage children's awareness of the living world and how things grow. Older children enjoy taking care of tomato and pepper seeds they have planted. They recognise that the seeds need water and sunshine to grow and carefully pour water onto the seeds. Staff provide many opportunities for children to build their fine motor skills. Children thoroughly enjoy manipulating dough in their hands. They roll it, pat it, pull it and try and flatten it using rolling pins.
Staff build positive relationships with children. Affection is readily given and received. Staff are positive role models. They give gentle reminders to children about sharing and being kind to one another. Children's confidence and self-esteem blossom through the praise and encouragement staff bestow on them. Children develop independence. They understand the need to wash their hands at appropriate times during the day, such as before mealtimes and after using the bathroom.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should: - support staff to further embed the curriculum to continually enhance children's learning so that they make even more progress n consider the nursery routines and how better to use these so that children do not sit for long periods.
- 7 March 2024Good
- 18 October 2023Inadequate
- 25 October 2021Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Little Swans Day Nursery
- 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 £70.00 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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