SRC Community Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.3 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in London for babies from 6 months up to school age, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in November 2024. Open since 1994, with 69 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
15 and 30 hours funded childcare, term-time and 50 weeks per year.
Worth knowing. Term-time funded childcare has no additional charge; 50-week funded childcare has monthly fees as listed.
What childcare usually costs in Southwark
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Southwark 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
SE17 3RJWhat 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, 27 November 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
The managers and staff provide children with a calm and inviting environment.
Children arrive happy. They have formed strong bonds with the staff. Reassurance and comfort are offered to children and they settle well. This means that children remain confident and secure at nursery. The staff know the children well. They set out activities that capture the children's interest. Children are quick to engage in self-directed play.
Staff and managers plan an ambitious curriculum that excites children and supports their learning and development. Babies enjoy messy play with cornstarch. They make marks and explore with their hands. Staff develop older children's vocabulary by extending on children's sentences and asking open-ended questions. Staff model how to use scissors safely as children practise cutting with scissors as they make their own snowman, making choices about how to decorate them. Children say they would like to make 'buttons' and staff reply, 'shiny paper buttons or soft paper buttons?. As a result, children concentrate for long periods of time, cutting out key features for their snowman while using the correct vocabulary. All children make good progress.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support staff to reduce the noise levels with older children, to fully promote children's communication and language development n ensure that staff check children's understanding of any rules and instructions given.
- 27 November 2024Good Safeguarding: Yes
- 29 January 2019Good
- 27 June 2018Inadequate
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for SRC Community Nursery
- What it costs
- 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.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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