Worcester Early Years Centre
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.6 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Lower Wick for babies from a few weeks old up to school age, open 07:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £12.00 an hour for 6 weeks - 18 months approx., and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in November 2023. Open since 2015, with 120 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Price list dated September 2025.
| Age | Session | Hourly | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 weeks - 18 months approx.1m to 19m | £10.507.30am - 8am £15.007am - 8am £83.508am - 3pm, 7 hrs £110.008am - 6pm, 10 hrs | £12.00Additional hour | |
| 2.5 years - 4 years approx.2y to 5y | £10.507.30am - 8am £15.007am - 8am £77.008am - 3pm, 7 hrs £98.008am - 6pm, 10 hrs | £11.00Additional hour | |
| School age up to 9 years | £8.50External Applicants only £12.00External Applicants only £49.00External Applicants only £65.00External Applicants only | – | |
| 18 months - 2.5 years approx. | £10.507.30am - 8am £15.007am - 8am £81.008am - 3pm, 7 hrs £100.008am - 6pm, 10 hrs | £11.00Additional hour |
Before you start
One-off charges to take a place.
- £100.00 Initial Admin Feepayable at booking, includes Funding Loop, FAMLY, Settle Sessions and Welcome
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
11.25 hours NEF funding, 22.5 hours NEF funding.
Worth knowing. Any sessions booked over and above the free sessions will be charged at the non-funded rates. Plus, any optional additional charges relevant to your child’s funding age.
What childcare usually costs in Worcestershire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Worcestershire 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
WR2 4BSWhat 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, 29 November 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Good settling-in procedures help children to be ready for the move from home to the setting. Children arrive happy and eager to begin their play. They form good relationships with the caring team of staff, who know them well. Babies are settled and content, and staff are tuned in to their individual needs. For example, they recognise when babies are beginning to get tired or hungry. Babies receive lots of reassurance and cuddles from the nurturing staff. This helps to support their emotional well-being.
Children are eager to play and motivated to learn because staff provide them with a well-organised and interesting learning environment. Staff help young children to develop strength in their hands in readiness for early writing. They encourage them to pick up small objects with large tweezers. Children develop a love of books and stories. Staff use expressive voices as they read to them during the day. Staff have extremely high expectations for children's behaviour. Children know exactly what is expected of them because staff gently remind them of the rules of the setting from an early age. Children display good manners and are caring and kind to their friends. They listen attentively to staff and follow their instructions. For example, children are eager to please and quickly respond to staff's request to get ready for small-group activities.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should: - build on staffs knowledge of what they want children to learn from planned play activities, to help them make the best possible progress in their educational journey n review children's planned next steps in learning to make sure that they are precise and focused on children's individual learning needs.
- 29 November 2023Good
- 7 March 2018Outstanding
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for Worcester Early Years Centre
- 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 £12.00 an hour 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.
- 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.
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