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Contact Information
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Phone Number0115 940 4388
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Details
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Group/OwnerLittle Nurseries
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Person in ChargeBarbara Swaisland (Manager)
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Number of Staff18
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When ClosedBank Holidays & Christmas
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Type of ServiceDay Nursery – Privately Owned Open all year Full Day Care Sessional Day Care
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Total Places for children83
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Age rangefrom 0 years 1 months to 8 years 0 months
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Opening DaysMon-Fri
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Opening Hours0730-1800
Rowan Hunter
September 23, 2024 at 10:52 amI sense so privileged that my daughter has a place here. I know every morning when I drop her off that she is going to have the best day ever and she adores the team working there. The team all know my daughter on a personal level and know exactly what she likes and dislikes. The manager is extremely accommodating when I need extra days in childcare centre. From a primary teacher’s perspective, this is an outstanding childcare centre in every way, in my opinion. Little owls is a remarkable childcare centre!
Jamie Jarvis
November 26, 2024 at 9:49 amHe has grown so much under their care. He loves every minute of his days there.
The team go above and beyond in their care and updates.
He gets so excited when he knows he’s going.
The activities are varied and allow for his development.
The food is outstanding (he’s a foodie) and offers so much variety.
I cannot suggest Little Owls enough. They are incredible! My little boy has been with Little Owls since he was 7 months old and is a very clingy baby.
Jamie Flynn
December 15, 2024 at 6:57 amThe team are incredible and extremely supportive and welcoming. Our daughter is excited every morning to go and see the team and her friends. I sense she has learned so much since being here and her development has come one leaps and bounds. We would 100% suggest this childcare centre to anyone! Our little girl has been going to Little Owls for 9 months now and we have nothing but praise for this childcare centre.
Logan Underwood
December 18, 2024 at 2:24 pmHe is so settled there and all the team are lovely, and you can tell they genuinely care about the kids. We can see the positive impact the childcare centre has had on his development. He has grown in self‑assurance and his speech is coming on wonderfully. Thank you to you all! It’s not an easy job that you do it is one of the hardest..you do a remarkable job! We are lucky to have you all. Our son has attended little owls Childcare centre since October 2022.
He loves going to childcare centre and is consistently so excited to see everyone when we say “are we going to see the ladies” he gets so excited!
Billie Keane
December 25, 2024 at 5:56 amHe is so cheerful and settled there and that tells us everything we need to know! The team are lovely and he loves going into them in the morning. Even if he has been feeling a little offside the team have been lovely with him. The activities they do with the kids are very great and we have noticed how this has brought on his development further already! Thank you so much we know he will be very cheerful here. Our son started Little Owls in March and I am so glad we choose there.
Cameron Mayer
January 6, 2025 at 4:56 pmHe will turn 4 in July and absolutely loves it! I was so nervous when he first started childcare centre but he settled in so well. All the team are attentive and get to know the kids. My son talks about them all the time. They cannot do enough for the kid and parent. Their app is incredible and helps you track what your kid has done throughout the day as well as what they’ve eaten. I will be sad when he leaves to go to school as I’m sure he will be. Would suggest to everyone! My son has been going to this childcare centre since he turned 2.
Casey Hunter
February 8, 2025 at 8:26 pmShe consistently mentions the team like they’re her best friends and is consistently excited to go. After organising a personal speech development plan in October she’s come on leaps and bounds and is a successful chatter box now! My daughter loves going to her preschool, they do lots of activities and the outdoor area is fabulous.
Phoenix Sawyer
April 12, 2025 at 9:27 amShe absolutely adores the team and is consistently excited to go in each day. I’m really pleased with the range of activities she gets to do, including swimming and dancing, but what makes this place extra special are the extra little touches that make parents and our kids sense valued. The management are very welcoming, approachable and welcoming and has consistently accommodated us and our needs. I will be sorry when it is time for us to move on! My daughter has been attending Little Owls Day Childcare centre for over two years and, in that time, she has consistently been very cheerful and well looked after.
Quinn Brooks
May 10, 2025 at 4:41 amShe is now 18 months and is growing into a clever and confident little girl, with the help of the lovely ladies at little owls. Nothing is ever too much trouble and my daughter consistently runs in cheerful and excited to go to childcare centre. My daughter has been going to Little Owls since she was 6 months old.
Indigo Pierce
May 13, 2025 at 4:16 amThis was to advise that my daughter’s childcare offer from Little Owls would be reduced by 50% from the following week due to team shortages.
There had been no forewarning that this may be the case; no indication from the team at any point that the situation had become this severe.
Furthermore, how is this sort of timescale allowed, considering if I wanted to remove my daughter from their childcare centre I was expected to give 4 weeks’ notice?
The childcare centre continued to take on new kids, despite being aware of the national staffing shortages and had absolutely no contingency plan were team to leave.
Moreover, I received no fair and transparent explanation as to how my daughter had been chosen to cut her hours.
My daughter has been extremely unsettled at her sudden change in setting and it has had a significantly detrimental impact on her. On Monday 16th May at 2pm in the afternoon (whilst I was at work).
Hayden Ferguson
May 15, 2025 at 2:41 amAs a parent, I’m extremely cheerful with the service the childcare centre provides for my daughter the manager and team are lovely and welcoming and consistently approachable to my daughter and me and her daddy. I’m so made up with every aspect of my daughter’s discovering and just how much we as a family adore the team that our new baby girl will be starting in February next year and I couldn’t be happier leaving her with the team as I know she will be welled looked after just like her big sister is now. The childcare centre came highly recommended to me and I’m very cheerful to be sending my daughter and soon my littlest daughter there as I know they are in great hands. My daughter has been coming to Little Owls for nearly two years she loves coming to the childcare centre and loves the team and every day she loves telling me and her daddy what she’s done that day.
Morgan Irwin
May 15, 2025 at 6:57 pmWe spoke to the manager, so said a lot of team had left. I had a few questions:
1. Is the notice period so short you’d allow all your team to be able to leave?
2. Why as an organisation do you not have business continuity plans for this happening?
Little Owls provided a social media statement blaming the government although if you speak to all the other local nurseries in Standish they are not struggling.
The ladies who work in the rooms are nice although in my opinion the management there are showing they do not have the best interest of the kids who attend. The unacceptable timescale to find replacement childcare.
If you are thinking of sending your kid to Little Owls ask yourself how would you sort long-term childcare with less than a week’s notice? Little Owls Standish cancelled 50% of our kid care with less than a week’s notice and we’re not able to explain how kids were selected.
Lane Sutton
June 1, 2025 at 3:48 amLovely, attentive team, my little girl loves it here and has been here for nearly 2 years. They organise lots of enjoyable activities every day and have a lovely outdoor area. She’s consistently telling me how much enjoyable she’s had… and asks to go to childcare centre at the weekend! Remarkable childcare centre.
Charlie Keller
June 14, 2025 at 6:12 amI’m very cheerful with both management and team both are consistently smiling , welcoming and expert at all times. The team provide so much adore and care to each kid and the kids are consistently engaged with new and exiting activity’s my daughter loves it. My son will be joining in September and I cannot wait for him to have and learn new experiences with the little owls gang this childcare centre is absolutely exceptional and I’m one cheerful mummy knowing that they care for my baby’s 100% the way I do , as a nervous mummy returning to work I sense 1 million percent reassurance from both management and team they are passionate about the kids in there care and it shows and I’m proud that my kids attend , thank you little owls day childcare centre I would be completely at a loss without you all xxx My daughter has been attending little owls day childcare centre since she was 7 months old she is now due to leave to attend school in September.
Lennon Hobbs
June 29, 2025 at 3:59 amI was very nervous at first leaving him at childcare centre but he settled in well and the log app makes it easy to see what he’s done throughout the day.
I would highly suggest little Owls to anyone My son started here in March 2022, he was 8 months old and since then he has come on leaps and bounds he loves it here and he loves the girls.
Taylor Clarke
July 4, 2025 at 1:34 pmThe childcare centre has a very homely sense about it. They have a great variety of activities. The outdoor playtime is remarkable. The meal plans are over a 3-week period and again is a great variety. The online app is excellent for talking to my kid about what she has done in childcare centre. When they turn 3 they are able to go swimming with childcare centre, which again is a excellent advantage.
Both my girls are summer babies and Little Owls gave my eldest the best start to the education system.
The team are inviting and welcoming. Both my girls have attended Little Owls Day Childcare centre and both have enjoyed attending.