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If a nursery has been reviewed in the last two years, you'll see its Nursery Review Score, rated from 1 to 10. The score reflects three things:
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Types of early years settings
To help you find the right type of educational care for your child.
Finding a nursery
Choosing the right nursery can be extremely daunting as you have to take that huge leap of faith and trust someone else to care for your child.
Settling your child into nursery
Leaving your child at nursery for the first time can be difficult for many parents, causing distress and anxiety to both parent and child.
What your child will learn and do at nursery
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Paying for childcare is costly and differs based on where you live in the UK.
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The review score shown below for each location is the average review score for all nurseries in that location. Browse all nurseries in each location, and compare locations by their average nursery review score.
9.2
England
13,887 Nurseries
9.2
East Midlands
1,042 Nurseries
9.49.29.29.19.3
Derbyshire
200 Nurseries
Leicestershire
239 Nurseries
Lincolnshire
173 Nurseries
Northamptonshire
184 Nurseries
Nottinghamshire
236 Nurseries
Rutland
10 Nurseries
9.2
East of England
1,464 Nurseries
9.29.39.29.29.29.0
Bedfordshire
156 Nurseries
Cambridgeshire
233 Nurseries
Essex
442 Nurseries
Hertfordshire
317 Nurseries
Norfolk
171 Nurseries
Suffolk
145 Nurseries
9.1
London
2,638 Nurseries
8.79.29.38.99.29.27.19.29.19.49.29.09.19.19.39.28.89.59.08.79.48.98.89.28.89.29.29.19.39.19.29.19.0
Barking & Dagenham Borough
50 Nurseries
Barnet Borough
116 Nurseries
Bexley Borough
59 Nurseries
Brent Borough
93 Nurseries
Bromley Borough
100 Nurseries
Camden Borough
75 Nurseries
City of London Borough
7 Nurseries
Croydon Borough
131 Nurseries
Ealing Borough
116 Nurseries
Enfield Borough
80 Nurseries
Greenwich Borough
99 Nurseries
Hackney Borough
85 Nurseries
Hammersmith & Fulham Borough
66 Nurseries
Haringey Borough
80 Nurseries
Harrow Borough
82 Nurseries
Havering Borough
86 Nurseries
Hillingdon Borough
82 Nurseries
Hounslow Borough
64 Nurseries
Islington Borough
68 Nurseries
Kensington & Chelsea Borough
49 Nurseries
Kingston upon Thames Borough
41 Nurseries
Lambeth Borough
99 Nurseries
Lewisham Borough
111 Nurseries
Merton Borough
73 Nurseries
Newham Borough
78 Nurseries
Redbridge Borough
90 Nurseries
Richmond Borough
81 Nurseries
Southwark Borough
88 Nurseries
Sutton Borough
53 Nurseries
Tower Hamlets Borough
60 Nurseries
Waltham Forest Borough
84 Nurseries
Wandsworth Borough
138 Nurseries
Westminster Borough
54 Nurseries
9.2
North East England
488 Nurseries
9.28.99.59.3
Cleveland & Teesside
103 Nurseries
Durham
108 Nurseries
Northumberland
71 Nurseries
Tyne & Wear
206 Nurseries
9.2
North West England
1,775 Nurseries
9.38.59.19.39.3
Cheshire
271 Nurseries
Cumbria
103 Nurseries
Greater Manchester
672 Nurseries
Lancashire
418 Nurseries
Merseyside
311 Nurseries
9.1
South East England
2,546 Nurseries
9.39.39.39.18.99.09.09.29.1
Berkshire
243 Nurseries
Buckinghamshire
254 Nurseries
East Sussex
232 Nurseries
Hampshire
510 Nurseries
Isle of Wight
35 Nurseries
Kent
457 Nurseries
Oxfordshire
177 Nurseries
Surrey
400 Nurseries
West Sussex
238 Nurseries
9.2
South West England
1,342 Nurseries
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Bath & North East Somerset
53 Nurseries
Bristol
97 Nurseries
Cornwall
123 Nurseries
Devon
248 Nurseries
Dorset
176 Nurseries
Gloucestershire
179 Nurseries
Isles of Scilly
1 Nurseries
North Somerset
52 Nurseries
Somerset
132 Nurseries
South Gloucestershire
82 Nurseries
Wiltshire
199 Nurseries
9.3
West Midlands
1,430 Nurseries
9.38.69.49.39.39.3
Herefordshire
49 Nurseries
Shropshire
122 Nurseries
Staffordshire
270 Nurseries
Warwickshire
166 Nurseries
West Midlands
645 Nurseries
Worcestershire
178 Nurseries
9.2
Yorkshire & The Humber
1,162 Nurseries
9.1
Scotland
714 Nurseries
9.2
Aberdeenshire
71 Nurseries
8.8
Angus
36 Nurseries
Argyll & Bute
11 Nurseries
8.6
Ayrshire
39 Nurseries
9.1
City of Edinburgh
91 Nurseries
7.5
Clackmannanshire
5 Nurseries
9.8
Dumfries & Galloway
17 Nurseries
9.0
Dunbartonshire
27 Nurseries
9.5
East Lothian
16 Nurseries
9.4
Falkirk
12 Nurseries
8.6
Fife
31 Nurseries
9.1
Glasgow City
81 Nurseries
8.5
Highland
18 Nurseries
9.8
Inverclyde
10 Nurseries
9.0
Lanarkshire
95 Nurseries
9.0
Midlothian
14 Nurseries
8.1
Moray
8 Nurseries
Orkney
1 Nurseries
8.1
Perth & Kinross
21 Nurseries
9.1
Renfrewshire
50 Nurseries
9.2
Scottish Borders
18 Nurseries
9.3
Stirling
19 Nurseries
9.2
West Lothian
22 Nurseries
Western Isles (Eilean Siar)
1 Nurseries
9.5
Wales
389 Nurseries
Blaenau Gwent
6 Nurseries
9.3
Bridgend
18 Nurseries
9.3
Caerphilly
18 Nurseries
9.7
Cardiff
55 Nurseries
9.9
Carmarthenshire
23 Nurseries
Ceredigion
6 Nurseries
9.9
Conwy
16 Nurseries
9.8
Denbighshire
18 Nurseries
9.0
Flintshire
22 Nurseries
Gwynedd
6 Nurseries
9.9
Isle of Anglesey (Ynys Mon)
4 Nurseries
9.7
Merthyr Tydfil
6 Nurseries
9.3
Monmouthshire
14 Nurseries
9.2
Neath - Port Talbot
15 Nurseries
9.6
Newport
23 Nurseries
Pembrokeshire
15 Nurseries
9.6
Powys
14 Nurseries
9.7
Rhondda, Cynon, Taff
28 Nurseries
9.1
Swansea
26 Nurseries
Torfaen
16 Nurseries
9.5
Vale of Glamorgan
18 Nurseries
9.5
Wrexham
22 Nurseries
9.4
Northern Ireland
222 Nurseries
9.7
County Antrim
66 Nurseries
9.3
County Armagh
17 Nurseries
9.4
County Down
104 Nurseries
County Fermanagh
4 Nurseries
8.1
County Londonderry
20 Nurseries
County Tyrone
11 Nurseries
9.4
Channel Islands
22 Nurseries
8.0
Isle of Man
14 Nurseries
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