Rose Cottage Day Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.3 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Bolton for babies from 3 months up to school age, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £60.00 a day, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in September 2025. Open since 1992, with 52 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Minimum 2 days a week, price list dated 1st September 2026.
| Age | Full day | Weekly | Monthly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All ages | £60.008am – 6pm | £257.50Full Week (Mon – Fri) | £282.00With 15hr Funding £309.00With 30hr Funding £510.00Without Funding £537.00With 15hr Funding £564.00With 30hr Funding £765.00Without Funding £773.00With 30hr Funding £792.00With 15hr Funding £920.00With 15hr Funding |
Before you start
One-off charges to take a place.
- £100.00 depositto confirm your acceptance of your child's place
What a funded hour still costs
Funded hours cover the childcare. These are charged alongside them.
- £11.00 a day food and consumablesfor funded hours
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
Government funding places from 9 months up to 4 years of age, 15 and 30 hours.
Worth knowing. An additional charge, £11 per day, for food and consumables is applied. If you attend 3 days or more, or if you are in receipt of 15 hours only, then the above prices may only cover 38 weeks of the year — the remaining 13 weeks are charged at full price.
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
BL5 3JPWhat 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, 9 September 2025 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children arrive happy and ready to start their day. They are warmly welcomed by the kind and caring staff. Staff provide a nurturing environment where all children thrive. Staff form strong relationships with children and are attuned to their individual needs. For example, when children are feeling sad, staff quickly reassure them with cuddles. This supports children's overall well-being. The key person approach is firmly embedded. All staff have a strong understanding of children's individual progress, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). They know children well and plan purposeful next steps for their development. All children make good progress from their individual starting points.
Staff create an exciting curriculum, tailored to meet children's individual needs at their different stages of development. Learning experiences are carefully sequenced to promote children's physical development. For example, babies strengthen their core muscles by pulling themselves up using soft blocks. Younger children enhance their gross motor skills by filling and emptying containers in the garden. Older children practise fine motor skills such as cutting, and staff offer gentle reminders about safe scissor use. Children show good coordination skills.
They demonstrate positive attitudes towards their learning.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- enhance the implementation of the curriculum to ensure all staff deliver a consistent approach that supports continuity in children's learning n strengthen the organisation of routines and transitions to maintain children's engagement in play and learning.
- 9 September 2025Good Safeguarding: Yes
- 19 November 2019Good
- 6 July 2016Outstanding
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Rose Cottage Day Nursery
- 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 £60.00 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.
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