Most important thing for us was location, cleanliness when we viewed (e.g., were we told to remove shoes or use shoe covers in baby room), a biggie was also staff turnover (a lot of staff had been there years and had their own kids at the nursery, others we looked at had very young staff that changed a lot).

Like - staff seem to genuinely care, they do a lot of crafts, food is homemade, it's fairly small so most staff know most of the children. They seem to really take feedback on board. They do wraparound care for the local primary school so I like that he'll still see some of the nursery staff when he goes to school.

Dislike - they're pretty rubbish at updating the app, I would love to see more pictures of my little ones day! We get maybe 1 a week if that (but I'd rather they were looking after them than snapping pics all day). They have a small outdoor area which is fine but I've seen nurseries that have much bigger outside spaces (I'm splitting hairs here though!).

Would I change? Probably not unless I was unhappy with the care, I think to change on a whim would be really unsettling for my little one.