The Hospital Day Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.6 on GoogleBirth to 5Open for decades
A day nursery in Sidcup for babies from 3 months up to 5 year olds, open 06:50 to 19:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in September 2021, though that is 5 years ago now. Open since 2004, with 60 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
30 hours funding offer from September 2017, 15 hours extra on to pof the 15 hours 3 and 4 year olds already receive. The extended free childcare entitlement for 3 and 4 year olds will provide eligible working parents with up to 30 hours of free childcare per week during term time or for a lesser number of hours for up to 52 weeks of the year, 1140 hours per year.
What childcare usually costs in Bexley
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Bexley 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
DA14 6LTWhat 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 September 2021 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Staff meet children at the door and give them a warm welcome as they settle into the calm nursery and move on to eagerly choose activities. Children form strong relationships with the staff team and show that they feel safe and secure by actively looking for familiar staff to give them support when needed. Staff have high expectations of children, but balance this well with support and encouragement. For example, when children learn to balance along a beam, they start by holding hands with an adult. They quickly progress to walking next to the adult, who offers a steady hand, ready if needed. Children's smile shows that they are proud of their achievement. This helps them to develop their confidence as well as their physical skills.
Children behave well and follow the rules of the nursery. Older children talk to their friends and sort out minor disputes. When staff become involved, they calmly encourage children to sort out problems for themselves and ask children for suggestions to solve problems. Staff and children treat each other with respect.
This support and guidance enables children to develop valuable social skills for their future.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should: - focus consistently on what children need to know at each stage so that all activities support their learning fully, particularly with the youngest children n improve the arrangements for supporting staff to improve and evaluate how they implement the curriculum.
- 15 September 2021Good
- 10 February 2017Good
- 28 October 2013Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for The Hospital Day Nursery
- What it costs
- Meals
- Nappies
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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