How we get our data
Where every detail on Toddly comes from, how up to date it is, how we read nursery websites, and how a nursery can ask us to hide anything taken from its website.
Last updated 11 November 2026
Sources and how current they are
| Source | What we take | As of |
|---|---|---|
| Ofsted register and inspection outcomes | Every registered nursery, its address, places, age range, and every inspection with its grades and report link | 30 June 2026 |
| Nursery websites | Fees, opening hours, funded hours, meals, approach and features, each linked to the page it came from | 11 November 2026 |
| Google Maps | Rating and review count, opening hours, phone and location. Review text is never published | 13 November 2026 |
| Department for Education (Get Information About Schools) | Nearby schools for the move to reception | 4 November 2026 |
The current dataset was built on 13 November 2026. Ofsted and DfE data is used under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Which source wins
When sources disagree we prefer, in order: what a nursery has told us directly after claiming its page, the nursery’s own website, Google, then the regulator. Inspection results always come from Ofsted and are never changed. A detail we do not know is left out: a blank is “unknown”, never “no”.
Funding figures in our calculators come from gov.uk and are listed with the page and the date we checked them. Anything we could not confirm is marked “check gov.uk”.
How we read nursery websites
- Our reader visits only nurseries’ own public websites, slowly: at least about a second between requests to the same site, and longer if the site’s robots.txt asks for it.
- It obeys robots.txt. A site that asks not to be read is not fetched at all.
- It identifies itself in its user agent with a contact address, so a site owner can reach us.
- It reads text only. We do not copy photos.
- It runs offline in batches, not on every page view.
Hiding website content or the assistant
A nursery can ask us to hide anything we took from its website, or to switch off the enquiry assistant on its page. Details from Ofsted stay, because the register is public. Contact us from an address at the nursery’s own domain, or claim your page to edit it yourself.
Frequently asked questions
How often is the data updated?
We rebuild the whole dataset regularly. Each source has its own date, shown on this page and next to the details on nursery pages. Ofsted publishes its full register data less often than individual reports, so a very recent inspection can take time to appear.
Can a nursery remove its listing?
Not the Ofsted details. Every registered nursery appears because Ofsted's register is public. A nursery can ask us to hide content we took from its website, or to switch off the enquiry assistant on its page, by contacting us.
Do you use Google reviews?
We show a nursery's Google rating and number of reviews with a link to Google. We never publish Google review text. We use it only to summarise common themes, without quotes.