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Little Scallywags Day Nursery in Birmingham (B33)

Ofsted: Good
(Feb 2025)
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4.2(10 parent reviews) ·476 Garretts Green Lane, BIRMINGHAM, B33 0SE · Birmingham
Number of places
110 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Feb 2025
Local authority
Birmingham

About this day nursery

Little Scallywags Day Nursery Ltd, registered in 2009, is a childcare setting located in Garretts Green, Birmingham. The nursery provides care for children aged 0 to 4 years, operating from Monday to Friday, all year round, with sessions from 7:30 am to 6:00 pm.

The dedicated staff, numbering 20, actively foster a love for reading through engaging and interactive story times, helping children develop language and communication skills. They ensure children have secure bonds with a key person, providing a supportive environment where children feel comfortable and confident.

The nursery effectively supports children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) by identifying needs quickly and implementing support plans in collaboration with parents and outside agencies. Parents consistently praise the 'wonderful' staff for their strong relationships with children and families, noting that their children love attending and make good progress.

What it's like

Staff at Little Scallywags Day Nursery Ltd are enthusiastic and interact warmly with children, fostering secure bonds. They prioritise developing children's love of reading and support their language and communication skills. Children enjoy being physically active and engaging in activities that promote their social, emotional, and mathematical development.

Good overall effectivenessStrong bonds with staffLiteracy focusEffective SEND supportPositive parent feedback

Pricing & funding

Funding accepted

15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)

Key facts

Opening hours

Monday to Friday, 7:30 am until 6 pm

Term time / All Year

All_year

Established

2009

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Little Scallywags Day Nursery

Last inspected 25 February 2025

Overall effectiveness
Good

What it's like to attend

Staff at Little Scallywags Day Nursery Ltd are enthusiastic and interact warmly with children, fostering secure bonds. They prioritise developing children's love of reading and support their language and communication skills. Children enjoy being physically active and engaging in activities that promote their social, emotional, and mathematical development.

Inspector highlights

  • Staff are enthusiastic and interact warmly with children, ensuring secure bonds and supportive relationships.
  • A priority of the curriculum is to encourage children to develop a love of reading through engaging and interactive story times.
  • Staff constantly interact with children, asking questions, narrating experiences, and singing songs to support language and communication development.
  • Staff support children's social and emotional development well, helping them to play board games and understand feelings.
  • Children enjoy being physically active, practising fine motor skills and using climbing frames.
  • Staff encourage children to solve mathematical problems and identify shapes during play.
  • Leaders and managers have a good understanding of quality teaching and learning and provide appropriate professional development opportunities.
  • The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with an open and positive culture that puts children's interests first.

Areas to develop

  • 1Support staff to consistently challenge children's learning more effectively as they play to help them make the best possible progress.
  • 2Extend opportunities for children to develop independence and ensure these opportunities are consistently recognised and promoted by staff.
Inspection #10376318 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

The support for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) is strong and consistent. Staff swiftly identify children with additional needs and devise and implement support plans. They are knowledgeable and work closely with parents and outside agencies to provide for each child's needs.

Outdoor space

Children enjoy being physically active in their play, including using indoor and outdoor climbing frames to climb and balance on, supporting the development of both small and gross motor skills.

Parent Reviews of Little Scallywags Day Nursery

4.2
(10)
shian higgins
3 years ago

Wouldn’t recommend this nursery. On the first day my child started she came home with a scratch and they couldn’t tell me how she did it, they lost her water bottle also, I gave them two days to find it and it didn’t turn up. The second day my child attended, she came home soaked in urine, they fetched her and gave her to me like that, mind you they put her coat on too so how they didn’t see it is terrible. I gave them the benefit of the doubt and upon my child supposedly returning after Christmas, they thought it would be great to not communicate that she wasn’t suppose to attend a few weeks before and never gave information correctly. On the week she was supposed to return, they kept on giving excuses as to why my child should attend another nursery, at first it was the hours, they tried to tell me what days and hours suited me when I made it clear I was fine with her current hours. After I stressed that I was ok with the hours, they came up with another excuse that my second child couldn’t join because they had no spaces left. The whole experience was unprofessional and communication with parents is terrible. I will also make it a point that my child was the only black child in a predominantly white and Asian nursery so I’m not really surprised at the experience we received. Will never send my child to another little scallywags again which is a shame because the one in Hodge Hill was ok. I’ve always been nervous to put my children in nursery and this was the longest she’s been in a nursery and I regret it. I’ve worked in care before so I know how people are treated hence why I was hesitant. I personally wouldn’t dream of treating anyone’s child the way mine was. A real shame.

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Shirley Brogan
2 years ago

Fabulous with my grandson he has come on in leaps and bounds and loves coming in

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Jacky Blood
6 years ago

I haven't been myself but my granddaughter goes to nursery isla iam

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Inspection history

Date: January 2013

  • February 2025Good
  • May 2019Good
  • February 2017Good
  • October 2013Good
  • January 2013Requires improvement

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