Sure Steps Day Nursery Ltd
OutstandingTakes funded hours★ 3.4 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Liverpool 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 They do not publish prices, so ask.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 Outstanding by Ofsted in February 2024. Open since 2006, with 100 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
30 hours per week funded place for working parents, universal offer of 15 hours a week for all 3&4 year olds, supported two 2 year old funding for 15 hours a week, all for 38 term weeks of the year.
Worth knowing. Voluntary supplement of £5 per morning or afternoon 5 hour session to cover meals and activities not included in the EYFS funding offer. Reduced weekly hours may be stretched over the full year.
What childcare usually costs in Liverpool
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Liverpool 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
L18 6HAWhat 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, 14 February 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
The nursery is a hub of excellence. Children thrive in this nurturing, friendly and fully inclusive nursery. Leaders are dedicated and passionate about providing all children with the very best start. They are extremely successful at conveying their curriculum intent to the whole staff team.
Staff plan activities that ignite children's curiosity and thirst for learning. Children of all ages consistently demonstrate extremely high levels of interest and engagement. For example, babies are enthralled as they explore the blocks of ice as they begin to melt. They are absorbed in learning as they try to free the flower buds that are stuck inside the ice cubes. Pre-school children use their vivid imaginations as they begin their space adventure. They use their knowledge of the solar system to discuss features of the planets they can see out of their rocket.
Toddlers gasp in awe as they observe the fizzing reactions that they create during their experiments.
- 14 February 2024Outstanding
- 2 May 2018Good
- 11 December 2014Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Sure Steps Day Nursery Ltd
- What it costs
- Meals
- 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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