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Happy Little Angels Day Nursery

Ofsted: Requires improvement
(Sept 2025)
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4.6(16 parent reviews) ·Croydon Unitarian Free Christian Church, The Croydon Flyover, Croydon, CR0 1ER · Croydon
Number of places
50 places
Age range
1–3 yrs
Last inspected
Sept 2025
Local authority
Croydon

About this day nursery

Happy Little Angels Day Nursery, located in Central Croydon, offers a nurturing and stimulating setting for children aged 6 months to 4 years. The nursery is committed to providing excellent childcare and supporting children's early development.

They adhere to the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Framework, ensuring a high-quality learning journey that focuses on communication, language, physical development, personal-social-emotional growth, literacy, mathematics, understanding the world, and expressive arts and design. Learning through play and imagination is central to their approach, fostering independence and confidence to prepare children for school.

The nursery provides nutritious meals and snacks and has an outdoor space with a nature garden where children can explore, garden, and learn about planting. They also organize local trips to places like libraries, markets, and parks, enriching the children's experiences within the community.

Happy Little Angels Day Nursery operates Monday to Friday, all year round, excluding public holidays and the period between Christmas and New Year, offering both full-time and part-time options.

Our ethos

Happy Little Angels Day Nursery adheres to the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Framework, with a pedagogical approach centred on learning through play and imagination. They are committed to fostering independence and confidence in children to prepare them for school, and aim to provide a nurturing and stimulating setting.

What it's like

Leaders have made some improvements, but significant weaknesses remain, particularly in monitoring staff performance and the challenging nature of the curriculum. While staff provide healthy snacks, hygiene practices are not consistently followed, increasing the risk of infection. Despite these issues, staff offer comfort and praise, making children happy and helping them develop independence skills.

EYFS CurriculumNature GardenNutritious MealsLocal Outings

Pricing & funding

Fees are structured around full-day sessions with age-banded rates for children under and over two years. Funding is stretched, with funded hours offered at no cost, though consumables and meals are charged extra. Non-funded places require a registration fee and monthly advance payments.

Funding accepted

15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)Tax-Free Childcare

Good to know

  • Registration fee applies for non-funded places.
  • One month's fees are payable in advance for non-funded places.
  • Full fees are charged during periods of child sickness and family holidays.
  • A 20% surcharge is applied to late fee payments.
  • Late pick-ups are subject to a per-minute fee.
  • Government funding can be stretched as 11 or 22 hours per week.

Key facts

Food

Meals and snacks provided, charged separately for funded children.

Opening hours

08:00 - 18:30, Monday to Friday

Age range

6 months to 4 years

Established

2021

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Happy Little Angels Day Nursery

Last inspected 11 September 2025 · Marisol Hernandez-Garn

Safeguarding effective
Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement
Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Requires improvement
Personal development
Requires improvement
Leadership and management
Requires improvement

Actions the provider must take

  • provide each member of staff with targeted and effective support, coaching and training to improve their performance and teaching practice
  • improve the process of observations and assessments to ensure staff provide children with challenging and ambitious curriculum to help them make good progress.
  • develop hygiene practices, particularly around handwashing after cleaning children's noses
  • improve the self-evaluation process to quickly identify and address all weaknesses in practice to benefit children's learning and development.

What it's like to attend

Leaders have made some improvements, but significant weaknesses remain, particularly in monitoring staff performance and the challenging nature of the curriculum. While staff provide healthy snacks, hygiene practices are not consistently followed, increasing the risk of infection. Despite these issues, staff offer comfort and praise, making children happy and helping them develop independence skills.

Inspector highlights

  • Leaders have worked with other professionals to help evaluate their practice, including reviewing risk assessment procedures.
  • Staff support children's confidence by giving them age-appropriate tasks.
  • Staff encourage positive behaviour, praising children for politeness and good manners.
  • Staff work with parents to support children's learning at home, including those with possible special educational needs and/or disabilities.
  • Staff serve a culturally diverse community, welcoming families from various cultures and backgrounds and encouraging the use of home languages.
  • Safeguarding arrangements are effective.

Areas to develop

  • 1Since the last inspection, leaders have worked with other professionals to help evaluate their practice. For example, they reviewed the risk assessment procedures to help keep children safe. However, the actions taken to address other weaknesses in practice lack urgency and precision. Consequently, the intended changes are not fully established. This affects the quality of interactions and learning experiences children receive. Despite this, leaders take responsibility and are keen to implement the necessary changes.
  • 2Staff supervision is ineffective. While staff know how to raise concerns about a child's welfare, they have not had enough training in delivering the curriculum. When they engage children in activities, their teaching is often too directed. This limits children's ability to express their wants and needs. Some staff also lack confidence in their teaching skills. They mainly supervise children rather than actively interact with them. This reduces children's engagement and motivation.
  • 3The quality of education remains a weakness. Staff observe and assess children's learning, but they do not use this information to create a more challenging curriculum. This does not set high expectations for children's learning.
  • 4Staff do not follow consistent hygiene practices. For example, on several occasions, staff do not wash their hands after cleaning children's noses. This increases the risk of infections spreading, which affects children's health.
Inspection #10407109 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

What parents say

Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection

Parents report that staff are approachable and their children enjoy attending the nursery.

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Staff work with parents to support children's learning at home, including those with possible special educational needs and/or disabilities. For instance, they provide guidance on how to assist with eating habits and potty training.

Outdoor space

Outdoors, activities are limited to basic climbing and running, which children choose on their own, with no additional opportunities to extend their physical skills. When children show an interest in role-play at the mud kitchen, staff do not provide enough resources to support their play.

Parent Reviews of Happy Little Angels Day Nursery

4.6
(16)
Jen
10 months ago

This nursery is the absolute best! My son went here for 2 years and then my daughter went for a year, both before starting school. They absolutely loved it! Everyday they could not wait to go and see all their lovely teachers and friends. The staff are just amazing! Every single last one of them, friendly, professional, caring, loving and fun. Wide range of activities and learning.. nutritious food, including vegetables and fruit. It is such a fun, loving environment and truly does feel like a family there. My daughter left yesterday, in which they held a beautiful graduation ceremony, and I'm so sad that after 3 years straight I won't be going there and seeing the beautiful staff, having a chat and a laugh. Can't wait until my 1 year old can go and begin her wonderful learning journey there.

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Juan Carlos Pesantez
a year ago

Since 2019 my daughter went to this daycare centre. I was very worried because she started with only 6 months and the teachers took very good care of her until she went to the reception. Now my second son also goes to the same daycare centre who started with 5 months, and they gave him all the support to start crawling and walking. And he is very happy when he goes to the daycare centre every day, he has turned on a lot since then. And I am very happy to see its development day after day. I thank the members of the daycare centre for their care, support, teaching to all the children.

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Kamryn Stephen
a year ago

I must say , i am soo happy that I have chosen this nursery for my child. The staff is very welcoming. I have regular updates and support with my child, it's amazing. My daughter has since improved massively on her interaction skills and communication skills, she is well looked after and any adjustments that needs to be made the staff and management work with me to accommodate this. I would recommend Happy little Angels to any parents. A peace of mind is important when leaving your child with carers and that is what they give me.

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Christina Ojal
a year ago

Sorry to review this but this Nursery needs lot of improvement, also as per offsted rating given to them as ‘Needs improvement’ in last review 2024. (1) The instructors are not well groomed themselves and they need to be groomed themselves at the first place. (2) The hygiene at the nursery needs to be improved a lot. (3) The instructors have got attitude issue, they don’t listen to your concerns and pass the blame back to parents in case of any issue. (4) Instructors don’t pay full attention to kids in focused way and kids catch all bad habits here. My son faced same. Kids running all over with runny nose, no one there to help them hand. Also, toilet training, sports training needs improvement. (5) Nursery needs better qualified instructors.

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Omolara Oluwayemisi
a year ago

Happy Little Angels feels like a second home to my son..ever since my son start to goes there from baby my mind is at rest cos all the staff and nannies treated him like a family...he's always happy to stay cos of the good treatment he's getting..and their price is reasonable...they are so considerate for parent about fees. Overall my son of under 2 can count numbers and read alphabet and he also recognise them..I will sure recommend to every parent...

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Inspection history
Improved from Inadequate → Requires improvement in 2025

Date: April 2023

  • September 2025Requires improvement
  • May 2025Inadequate
  • September 2024Requires improvement
  • March 2024Requires improvement
  • October 2023Inadequate
  • April 2023Inadequate

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