Whitegate Early Years Care
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.3 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Burnley for children from birth to 8+, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in August 2024. Open since 2006, with 84 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Free 15 or 30 hours nursery entitlement.
What childcare usually costs in Lancashire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Lancashire 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
BB12 8TGWhat 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 August 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children settle well at this safe and nurturing setting. Staff have worked hard to address the actions from the last inspection. For example, they plan and implement a clear and ambitious curriculum. As a result, all children are making good progress. Staff understand how to sequence children's learning. For example, they encourage babies to pull themselves to standing. Staff provide furniture to help children to cruise around the room. Once children can walk, they help them to progress with skills such as climbing steps. Children show delight in their achievements, clapping their hands together. They give beaming smiles to the supportive staff, who are close by giving reassurance and praise. Overall, children build on their skills over time.
The curriculum has a strong focus on developing children's speech and communication skills. Staff take time to listen to children, they repeat the words children say, and give children time to respond in conversation. In addition, children are taught some basic sign language. For example, at snack time children use the signs for 'more' and 'thankyou'. This helps children who are not yet talking to be able to communicate. Staff consistently model kind and caring behaviour, they encourage children to turn take and share. This helps children to know what behaviours are expected of them. Parents comment on the improvements in their children's social skills.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- help staff to consistently implement children's next steps in learning, particularly during spontaneous interactions and activities n support staff to consistently adhere to and maintain hygiene routines, to help children to learn healthy practises n identify precisely what individual staff need to do to raise the quality of their teaching even further.
- 15 August 2024Good
- 2 October 2023Needs improvement
- 20 August 2019Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Whitegate Early Years Care
- What it costs
- Youngest age taken
- 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.
- 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.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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