Moorlands Day Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.6 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Bolton for babies from 9 months up to school age, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in February 2022. Open since 2012, with 87 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
We offer funded 15 and 30 hour places for eligible children from 9 months.
What childcare usually costs in Bolton
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Bolton 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
BL6 5PSWhat 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.
- 16 June 2023 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 17 February 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children of all ages enjoy days of excitement and challenge in this caring and nurturing nursery environment. Babies independently explore their environment and giggle when they see themselves in mirrors. Motivated by the encouragement from staff, they are starting to crawl and stand with some support. Toddlers act out tea parties with dolls while others use their imagination to create pretend food from dough. Older children select books and make early attempts at reading, while others concentrate well during craft activities. Children have lots of fun outside as they whizz around at speed on wheeled toys, which they manoeuvre with great skill. All children demonstrate they feel safe in the nursery. They confidently approach their familiar adults for comfort or speak to them about how they are feeling. Children follow the rules of the nursery. As a result they are developing a sense of right and wrong and are respectful to others.
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the nursery is providing children with even greater support in relation to communication and language development, and social and emotional development.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- continue to develop staff practice so that correct speech is consistently modelled to children n enhance opportunities for children to embed their independence skills.
- 17 February 2022Good
- 30 May 2017Good
- 1 December 2016Inadequate
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Moorlands Day Nursery
- 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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