Awful pre school in Cheshire! My daughter never wanted to go & she told me a member of staff told her horrible, nasty comments, I made a complaint, nothing was done! Manager was useless & unprofessional! Not recommended!

0 stars!!!

If I could give 0 stars I would. This nursery messed me around with timings meaning I missed my return to work date and had to use up all my mat leave holiday allowance in one go; they took my preschooler without once seeking information on him prior to him starting - I had to send him in on his first day with a hand written letter introducing him and his likes/dislikes/toilet situation etc; they went to great lengths to make me sign every single food I was happy for my 1yo to eat, accepted he needed to be dairy free and then came back a couple of weeks later and told me I had to get written proof from a doctor that he should be dairy free. When I asked what would happen if I didn’t, they said they would report me to head office.
I could never get a clear figure on how much their charge was per month and they consistently gave me inaccurate charges (excluding our free hour allowance) and were impossible to get hold of to discuss finances. When I finally had enough and withdrew both kids, I chased and chased to get final invoice. The manager finally told me what it was and I paid it. 6 months later, after no communication from them, I have just been contacted by debt collectors saying I owe them money.
This company is shamefully badly run and should not be trusted with children. It is purely focused on maximising fees, minimising costs, and doing the bare minimum to support the children. At the next nursery we joined the staff told us completely independently that the BH staff are aware it’s just all about the profit. Avoid at all costs.

Very poor service. Most of the time they don’t have availability. So they shouldn’t claim to be emergency back up care. Also most of the nannies are inexperienced and untrained! Terrible if you think you can leave them alone with your kids.
Don’t waste your time!

The service is unacceptable, nannies are very incompetent and can do more harm than good. There are no rattings for nannies and customer most often gets a nanny randomly allocated. Randomly means that they get all the left overs as good nannies are often preoccupied. This is a parttime job for nannies that can't get a full time on their own in the expense of the family taking the risk.

AVOID THE RISK

I have received an advertising email from Emma’s diary saying that they are offering FREE stay and play sessions so I wanted to take the opportunity to see the nursery if it’s suitable for my little one.
I had to call them as no one replied my online enquiry but no one answered.
They called be back and I was told that they don’t do any of the sessions advertised.
I was told that I am not allowed to see the nursery and I would need to leave my child at the entrance. How wierd is that?
I will definitely avoid Tabard Street nursery and the company!

Year ago we filled our application to the nursery and after one year no any news. Rude, weird customer services. Our documents gone somewhere, please stay away from this place. Child without nursery, thanks fo awful service ever had. AVOID, NOT RECOMMEND AT ALL.

Unfortunately, we had a bad experience at this nursery chain. They have serious issues with cleanliness, attention to children, and communication with parents. We moved to another nursery and we only then realized how bad it was. Note: the baby room was good and we had fewer issues there.

DO NOT TAKE Up Their backup care, their customer service, booking service is horrible, you will not get through them for hours and hours and their agents as much as they speak well, it goes to an American call centre and they are horrible in communication.

Useless back-up care service.
You book a back-up care service but they have no availability most of the times you ask in the Canary Wharf area. So why do you exist if you cannot provide the service you advertise?

To the parents:
My child had been this nursery for two years. And the manager in east barnet London not a caring person. She did not help parents with payments and ignoring my emails and calls during the lockdown. I was trying to pay the nursery every month by email and phones. She just totally igored me for 6 months.Her behavior already made me the loss for the universal credit which is about 3000 pounds because of her carelessness. She always tried to explain the matter was not her fault. Do not send your child to this nursery. Totally unhelpful and try to avoid their responsibility. I would like to give 0 star on this nursery!

This is an absolute superb chain, especially the ones in the Didcot area as the buildings are divine & spacious. I have worked at various nurseries and preschools through agency work & I really like the atmosphere and approach within Bright horizons. I can see the cohesion among the different locations within this chain, the expectations & toys are the same. At Didcot the rooms are filled with windows into the other classrooms so it feels spacious & United. The food is nutritious. The children are well looked after and stimulated. There’s lots of empathy & kindness & the children seem very happy & well behaved.
The ONLY point I think that NEEDS to be addressed is amount of waste & lack of recycling. Of course it’s expected there’ll be some food waste, however there’s no food recycling facilities & this is apparent with all the other materials which are vastly wasted & NOT recycled such as plastics & paper, etc.. If the managers & directors rectified this issue which is a global concern, then I feel it would be even more so competitive.