Puddleducks Day Nursery (Baldock) Limited: Ofsted & Fees

Puddleducks Day Nursery (Baldock) Limited

IndependentDay Nursery

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Butterfield House, Hitchin Street, SG7 6AE

Butterfield House, Hitchin Street, SG7 6AE Website 01462 490955

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GoodSep 2024View full report

GoodSep 2024

Inspected Sep 2024 · View report

Not published

Opening hours

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Accepted

Funded hours

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100

Registered places

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Inspection · Good, Sep 2024 (2 years ago)

Source · Ofsted · Inspected Sep 2024

Type

Private Day Nursery

Age Range

Not published

Registered Places

100

Registration

Active

Ofsted Registers

EYR, CCR, VCR

Provider Type

Full Day Care

Deprivation (IMD)

Decile 8/10 (1 = most deprived)

Registered Since

Apr 1995

Funded provision

Accepts funded entitlements (verify with setting)

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Key metrics · Absence, staffing and capacity

Key admissions dates ·

The area · Deprivation decile 8 of 10 (IMD 2025)

Place & Setting

Local Context

Area deprivation

IMD Decile 8Least deprived

Planning flood zone (ignores defences)Zone 1

Heritage status

Grade II+3 more

Around the schoolcrime · road safety · green space · air quality · heritage

Heritage designations

4 designations matched to Puddleducks Day Nursery (Baldock) Limited or its setting.

10, HITCHIN STREET
Historic England · England · within 25 m · designated Aug 1974
Grade II
12 AND 14, HITCHIN STREET
Historic England · England · within 25 m · designated Aug 1974
Grade II
6, HITCHIN STREET
Historic England · England · within 25 m · designated Aug 1974
Grade II
8, HITCHIN STREET
Historic England · England · within 25 m · designated Aug 1974
Grade II

Source: Historic England · England. Updated Sep 2026. Match: 25 m PostGIS spatial join from the school’s point location to each designation polygon.

Neighbourhood safety· within ½ mileAround LA average

Crimes per month 39

Hertfordshire peer median: 38 per month

12-month total463

Top categories

Violent crime

170 (37%)

Anti-social behaviour

85 (18%)

Other theft

54 (12%)

and 11 smaller categories

Source: data.police.uk · ½ mile radius · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 · vs 1,549 Hertfordshire schools.

Road Safety Nearby

Recorded collisions within 500m (2021–2025)19

Source: DfT road safety data

Greenspace Nearby

Greenspace sites within 800m17

Nearest site50m

Includes3 public parks, 2 playing fields, 3 play spaces, 2 sports facilities, 2 allotments

Source: OS Open Greenspace

Air Quality

Nitrogen dioxide (NO₂): modelled annual mean for the school's 1 km square, with the yardsticks that apply
Item	µg/m³
Nitrogen dioxide (NO₂)	10.1 µg/m³
The legal limit in England (40)	40
The WHO guideline (10)	10

Within the legal limit in England (40) · above the WHO guideline (10)

Fine particulate matter (PM₂.₅): modelled annual mean for the school's 1 km square, with the yardsticks that apply
Item	µg/m³
Fine particulate matter (PM₂.₅)	8.5 µg/m³
The legal limit in England (20)	20
England’s 2040 target (10)	10
The WHO guideline (5)	5

Within the legal limit in England (20) · within England’s 2040 target (10) · above the WHO guideline (5)

Particulate matter (PM₁₀): modelled annual mean for the school's 1 km square, with the yardsticks that apply
Item	µg/m³
Particulate matter (PM₁₀)	14.1 µg/m³
The legal limit in England (40)	40
The WHO guideline (15)	15

Within the legal limit in England (40) · within the WHO guideline (15)

Modelled annual mean for 2025, for the 1 km square containing the school. Not a measurement.

Source: DEFRA, Air quality compliance assessment 2025: modelled data and reports (GOV.UK) (CMAQ-Urban model) © Crown copyright, Defra. Open Government Licence v3.0Limits and guideline: The Air Quality Standards Regulations 2010, Schedule 2; WHO global air quality guidelines (2021), Table 0.1; The Environmental Targets (Fine Particulate Matter) (England) Regulations 2023, regulation 4

Data from:Inspection: Sep 2024Profile updated: Oct 2026

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Puddleducks Day Nursery (Baldock) Limited: key facts

What did Ofsted judge Puddleducks Day Nursery (Baldock) Limited's early years overall effectiveness to be?

Ofsted judged Puddleducks Day Nursery (Baldock) Limited's early years overall effectiveness as Good at its inspection in September 2024, on Ofsted's own scale.

Where is Puddleducks Day Nursery (Baldock) Limited located?

Puddleducks Day Nursery (Baldock) Limited is located in Baldock, SG7 6AE, Hertfordshire.

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