Pines Private Day Nursery (The)
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Ilkeston for children from birth to 8+, 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 They do not publish prices, so ask.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 March 2024. Open since 1998, with 83 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
New Goverment funding for working parents, 2 Year Funding and Taxfree Childcare.
What childcare usually costs in Derbyshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Derbyshire 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
DE7 5FYWhat 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.
- 13 June 2022 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 26 March 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Staff support children to settle at this home-from-home nursery by gathering information about children's routines at home. This helps staff to know how to meet children's care needs effectively and promotes continuity. Children happily leave their parents and quickly start exploring the environment.
The management and staff team ensure that the nursery is safe, well organised, and inviting. They plan exciting activities that they know children find interesting.
Children are excited to learn and show good levels of concentration. For example, older children work well with their friends as they make their own play dough.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- build on staff's knowledge of the curriculum intent, so they are clear about what skills and knowledge they want children to gain from experiences n embed communication and language training and staff skills in consistently developing children's communication abilities further through their interactions.
- 26 March 2024Good
- 10 April 2018Good
- 14 November 2017Inadequate
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Pines Private Day Nursery (The)
- What it costs
- Youngest age taken
- 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.
- 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
This one is first. Tick it and one or two others to see them side by side.