Enchanted Wood Preschool, Little Nest, Welling

A dedicated sensory room, a soft play frame and equipment for supported movement give Little Nest, Welling a clear purpose: specialist preschool provision for children with moderate to complex additional needs. The setting at 56 Wrotham Road, Welling, DA16 1LN accepts children from 12 months to five years and has 15 places in total, with no more than nine children attending daily.

No Ofsted inspection has been published for this setting yet.

Squirrels caters for children with complex additional needs, aged 12 months to five years. Its activities include floor-based physiotherapy programmes, tasks using BEE chairs and support with walking frames, giving children different ways to participate according to their mobility.

The Early Years Foundation Stage is the required framework for learning and care. In parent language, that means supporting children's development through play alongside their everyday care.

Enrichment includes speech and language intervention each week, sensory play and soft play. Jo Jingles and Baby Ballet Shine also form part of the enrichment programme. These additions sit alongside the specialist equipment and adapted activities.

Medical needs are part of the care arrangements. Staff receive training from medical teams to administer medication or deliver feeds using PEG feeding systems. For families managing these routines, the relevant detail is the training for those tasks.

Speech and Language professionals, Occupational therapists and Educational Psychologists work alongside the setting on individual interventions. This brings outside professional involvement into the preschool's support arrangements.

Sessions and Attendance

Attendance is term-time only. Full Day runs from 8.30am to 4pm, with an additional Early Bird session from 8am to 8.30am. All-day attendance is conditional on children having settled and the setting being able to meet their needs.

Funding and Paid Extras

Current prices come in the nursery's written quotation. The Little Nest fees and supplements page provides the route to its charging information.

• Medical and mobility support. PEG feeding, physiotherapy activities and walking frames are part of the offer. At a visit, discuss how these arrangements would match your child's individual care plan.
• Settling before full days. All-day sessions depend on settling and the setting's ability to meet a child's needs. After families join the waiting list, staff arrange a home visit and a meeting involving support agencies; use these to discuss a suitable starting pattern. Preschool visits are restricted to families on the waiting list.
• Term-time attendance. Full Day and Early Bird operate within a term-time model. Families needing childcare during school holidays will need to account for that boundary.

Little Nest, Welling suits families seeking specialist preschool provision for a child with moderate to complex needs, with either the core Full Day pattern or a Full Day preceded by Early Bird. Its practical identity rests on adapted movement activities, sensory facilities and medical-task training. The conditional move to all-day attendance makes the child's settling and care needs central to the attendance decision.