Sinfin Community Childcare
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Derby for children from birth to 8+, open 07:15 to 18:00, 7 days a week. £69.00 a day, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in March 2024. Open since 2004, with 70 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Price list dated April 2026.
| Age | Full day | |
|---|---|---|
| All ages | £28.00Morning or Afternoon £42.50Afternoon £44.00Morning £60.00Short day £69.00 |
Extras
Charged on top of the session rate.
- £5.00 a day Early start
What a funded hour still costs
Funded hours cover the childcare. These are charged alongside them.
- £1.00 to £6.50 a day Funded day rate
Funded hours
15 and 30-hour government funding for eligible 2, 3 and 4-year-olds.
Worth knowing. On funded days, a non-mandatory meal contribution will be added to your invoice.
What childcare usually costs in Derby
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Derby 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
DE24 9HGWhat 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, 15 March 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are happy and settled in this nursery. Staff greet them warmly as they arrive and develop strong relationships with the children and their families. This helps the children to feel safe and secure. Staff have high expectations for all children's behaviour. They provide a variety of interesting activities that children enjoy. For example, toddlers thoroughly enjoy popping bubble wrap as they paint, learning to hold and control the paintbrush. Babies laugh and giggle as staff show them how to run the sand through their fingers and squeeze the play dough. These activities help to strengthen the muscles in baby's fingers in preparation for later skills, such as holding a spoon.
Children develop positive attitudes toward their learning. They confidently move around the rooms, choosing their play. Staff encourage children to solve problems and extend their learning through play. For example, pre-school children use building blocks, and attempt to create a large track for their toy cars. Staff sit with the children and discuss how they might achieve this safely. Staff demonstrate how to fix the blocks together. The children listen, concentrate and use hand-eye coordination as they copy staff. Once complete, they play together, rolling the cars up, down and around their track. The children chat amongst themselves and the staff about how fast their cars go.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- strengthen support for babies to build on the range of words they know and to practise their language skills n strengthen staff support to help develop practice, paying particular attention to the planning and delivery of group activities.
- 15 March 2024Good
- 10 May 2018Good
- 27 June 2017Needs improvement
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Sinfin Community Childcare
- 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.
- Is £69.00 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.
- 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.
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