Rightstart Daycare
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Ilford 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 They do not publish prices, so ask.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 February 2023. Open since 2015, with 41 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
2 & 3 yrs funded places available. We accept 30 hour funding, tax-free childcare and childcare vouchers.
What childcare usually costs in Redbridge
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Redbridge 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
IG2 6BNWhat 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.
Ofsted inspector, 2 February 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children have positive relationships with all staff. They engage in the experiences and activities on offer. For instance, children and staff play hide and seek cooperatively with each other in the garden. Children have a good attitude to their learning. When leading their own learning, they mark make, draw pictures and build with construction. Children show that they are proud of their achievements.
They confidently talk to visitors about their favourite songs and rhymes. Children demonstrate that they feel happy and secure.
The new manager and staff have put in place a learning programme where children participate and have fun. The special educational needs coordinator works effectively with parents and outside agencies to ensure that all children with special educational needs and/or disabilities receive good support. The provider uses additional funding, such as early years pupil premium, to promote the well-being and learning of individual children. This has a positive impact on the quality of education that all children receive.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support staff to provide a more consistent approach to managing children's behaviour to help children gain a better understanding of what is expected of them n strengthen the role of the key person so that it is consistently effective in promoting children's progress and development to the highest level n strengthen training and support for staff to ensure that they are able to deliver the highest quality teaching.
- 2 February 2023Good
- 9 October 2018Good
- 17 August 2016Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Rightstart Daycare
- What it costs
- Youngest age taken
- Meals
- 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
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