--- title: "About Nursery Advice" description: "About Nursery Advice — the UK's independent nursery directory from Better Search Limited. Ofsted-powered data, impartial Google parent reviews, and tools built for choosing the right nursery." lang: en-GB json-ld: | [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "WebSite", "name": "Nursery Advice", "url": "https://www.nurseryadvice.co.uk", "description": "Search and compare UK nurseries. Ofsted ratings, fees, opening hours, parent reviews and inspection history — all in one place.", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "potentialAction": { "@type": "SearchAction", "target": { "@type": "EntryPoint", "urlTemplate": "https://www.nurseryadvice.co.uk/search?q={search_term_string}" }, "query-input": "required name=search_term_string" } }, { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Organization", "name": "Nursery Advice", "url": "https://www.nurseryadvice.co.uk", "description": "Search and compare UK nurseries. 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Every day nursery in England, pulled straight from the Ofsted register and enriched with what each provider publishes on their own website — combined with impartial parent reviews from Google. 14,488 Day Nurseries 1,791 Rated Outstanding 154 Local authorities Ofsted Official regulator data Why this exists ## Choosing a nursery meant eight browser tabs and a headache. Council pages that hadn't been updated in years. Ofsted PDFs written for inspectors. Directories fighting for whoever paid the most. Half the time we couldn't even tell which nurseries were still open. So we built the version we wanted. Every registered day nursery in England, the inspection judgements translated into English, and the reviews parents are already leaving on Google — brought together in one place you don't have to log in to use. We don't sell your enquiry to the highest bidder. We don't hide phone numbers behind a sign-up wall. We don't promote whichever setting paid us this month. None of that fits what a parent is actually trying to do. Nurseries can claim their listing and manage it themselves. Everyone else just gets to browse. How we do it differently ## Five things we made a point of getting right. 1. 01 ### Two sources of truth: the regulator and the provider. Every listing is built from Ofsted's Management Information and the Get Information About Schools register — inspection dates, judgements, URN, capacity and provider details, straight from the source. We then enrich each profile with what the nursery publishes on its own website: fees, opening hours, funded hours, ethos, facilities and staffing. Regulator data for the facts, provider data for the detail. 2. 02 ### Every nursery appears. Over 14,000 nurseries sit in our directory. None of them had to pay to be there. We fully support and are committed to all nursery owners. 3. 03 ### Ofsted reports, in English. The inspection framework wasn't written for a parent skim-reading at 10pm. We keep the original report card, but we also decode the judgements, show the trend over time, and highlight what actually changed between visits. 4. 04 ### Reviews come from Google, unedited. We don't run our own review system and nor should we. We show each nursery's Google star rating, the full review count, and the most recent reviews — exactly as they are. More on why below. 5. 05 ### When a nursery claims their listing, they own it. Claim goes through a verification flow tied to the regulator record. From there, the owner manages photos, opening hours, fees, jobs, tours, availability and enquiries themselves — through a proper workspace, not a message form. Why we use Google reviews ## No one should mark their own homework. Parents already leave honest reviews on Google. They do it for the pub, the plumber and the pre-school — it's how people rate things in 2026. Our job is to bring those voices into the nursery decision, not to invent another review system that we quietly control. Directories that host and moderate their own reviews are conflicted. They can hide the bad ones, weight the good ones, or nudge a paying customer up the page. We don't want that power and parents shouldn't have to trust that we wouldn't use it. Google is the neutral layer. Reviews are tied to a real place, moderation is governed by Google's rules, and neither we nor the nursery can pay to change what a parent has written. It's the most honest signal we can show — and it's the same signal parents are checking on their phone anyway. 122,684 parent reviews from Google Across **10,756** nurseries. Sourced from Google, shown unedited, linked back to the source. Who the platform serves ## A single platform for the two audiences that matter. Nursery Advice is built for the families choosing childcare and the providers delivering it. Each side has its own workflow, but the underlying record — the nursery's profile — is shared, so what parents see is exactly what the provider has published. For parents ### A complete view of every nursery in your area. Search by postcode and see the full field — closest first, best-rated as the tiebreaker — with the Ofsted judgement, inspection history and plain-English summary sitting alongside the provider's own fees, opening hours, funded hours, age bands, facilities and ethos. Impartial Google reviews sit on every profile so parents can hear from other parents without leaving the page. Shortlists, favourites and side-by-side comparison are available without an account, and enquiries, tour bookings and open day RSVPs go directly to the nursery. For providers ### A managed listing and a serious operator workspace. Nurseries claim their listing through a regulator-matched verification flow and then take full ownership of how they appear — photos, description, opening hours, fees, facilities, ethos and section order — all managed from a dedicated workspace rather than a contact form. Open days, tour bookings, enquiries, availability by age band, jobs and documents are handled in-platform, and every enquiry lands directly in the nursery's inbox. One straightforward subscription, no paid placement, no lead resale, no gated basics. The company ## Better Search Limited. Nursery Advice is run by Better Search Limited, a UK company building specialist search products for the decisions that actually matter — where generic directories fall down and people deserve something better. We're small and we like it that way. We don't answer to investors chasing a quick exit. Better Search Limited is registered in England & Wales. ## Have a look around and see what you think. 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