Village setting · 48 placesThe Willow Tree Nursery
Skylarks Group · Buckinghamshire
EYFS · Ofsted · DCC readyMulti-tenant from day oneLive ratios, per room, per minuteMade in the UK
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Real settings. Real rooms.
Not stock photos.
A handful of the nurseries running on OpSet today — from single-room village settings to multi-site groups.
Village setting · 48 places
Forest school · 3 sessions/weekRookwood Outdoors
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Skylarks Group · Milton Keynes
Pre-school · 60 placesHazelbrook Pre-School
Community · Oxfordshire
Group · 3 settingsMeadowlark Early Years
Multi-site · West Midlands
2–4 · 34 placesBramble Cottage
Rural · North Yorkshire
01 · Discover a world beyond nursery management
Your all-in-one operating system,
from the first ratio to the final report.
Ten modules, one login, one shared source of truth. No spreadsheets, no lost paper, no half-broken bolt-ons.
01
Children & families
Profiles, key workers, consents, allergies, SEND flags, guardians.
02
Attendance & live ratios
One-tap sign in/out. Ratios calculated in real time, room by room.
03
Observations & planning
EYFS-tagged observations. Termly, mid-term and weekly plans.
04
Learning & reporting
On-entry, settling-in, end-of-year, transition — structured templates.
05
Safeguarding & DSL
Restricted concern logs, chronologies, referrals. Fully audit-trailed.
06
Parent portal
Photos, daily updates, learning journey, incident notifications.
07
Milk scheme
Weekly cost-milk orders and monthly Nursery Milk Scheme claims from attendance.
08
Equipment & PAT
Annual electrical testing. Due-date flags. One dashboard for compliance.
09
HR, funding, policies
DBS, training, DCC funding, policy reviews with reminders.
01 · The register, reinvented
Ratios you can actually trust — calculated every minute.
One-tap sign in and out, per-room. OpSet recalculates staff-to-child ratios continuously, flags breaches before they happen, and keeps an audit trail Ofsted can read in a glance.
- Live per-room ratios
- Breach warnings & auto-rebalance
- Immutable audit trail
02 · Practitioners over dashboards
Observations in seconds. Reports pre-filled from EYFS.
Photograph a moment, tag the framework area, done. On-entry, settling-in, end-of-year and transition reports pull from the child's journey — the team spends the day with the children, not with a spreadsheet.
- EYFS-tagged in one tap
- Structured report templates
- Parent-ready in a click
03 · Quietly good at compliance
Nothing quietly expires — ever again.
PAT tests, DBS renewals, first-aid certificates, policy reviews and safeguarding chronologies all with due-date logic and DSL-only access. The uncomfortable stuff, handled with care.
- PAT & DBS due-date engine
- DSL-restricted safeguarding log
- Policy library with reminders
Why we built it
Nurseries deserve software as considered as the practice of running them. Not clipboards. Not seven logins. Not a spreadsheet from 2011.
Ratios, safety, safeguarding — first.
Live ratios by room. DSL-only concern logs with audit trail. PAT tests, policies and DBS all with due-date flags. Nothing quietly expires.
Practitioners over dashboards.
The register is one tap. Observations take seconds. Reports start pre-filled with EYFS-aligned templates. The team's time belongs to the children.
One source of truth.
Children, staff, funding, milk, planning, incidents — all in one product. Every screen reads from the same data. No exports. No parallel spreadsheets.
“We ran on three spreadsheets, a WhatsApp group and a paper register. Now the whole setting reads from one screen. I’ve got my Saturday back.”
RB
Rachel Bennett
Manager · The Willow Tree Nursery