Every renewal, every check, every room’s ratio — remembered, chased, and written down before anyone asks. NurseryGuard carries the compliance memory a spreadsheet or a busy manager was holding: the training that lapses in eight months, the reference that has to exist before day one, and a timestamped answer to “were we in ratio at 10:40?”. Use Famly, use us, use whatever works — we sit alongside your nursery app, we don’t replace it.
£39/mo founding rate · 30-day trial, no card · about an hour of agency cover.
This is what a day looks like when each room runs a quick Room Check. Mostly green. When a room is short for a few minutes, it’s recorded honestly — with the fix — not hidden, and not reconstructed afterwards.
Product illustration with sample data.
A 15-second Room Check per room feeds this picture — pick the room, tap the counts, get a plain answer, saved. No integration needed. How EYFS ratios are calculated →
Famly runs your day — registers, parents, billing — and it’s good at it. But it was never built to be your compliance evidence: the DBS recorded in the right place, the training and first-aid renewal dates, the references obtained in the right order, the timestamped ratio record. That’s the layer NurseryGuard holds — alongside your nursery app, never instead of it. The Famly connection is built — we switch it on setting by setting with our founding customers.
One account, every setting. Each staff member’s evidence is attributed to the site they work in; every room’s checks and every diary stay per-setting; the picture is one view. £39 per setting per month — built for the owner-manager of one to five settings, the person carrying all of it.
Add them tonight; the reference requests go out in the EYFS 3.20 order — before day one, chased for you.
The room check from that morning answers in one line — timestamped, written at the time, not remembered afterwards.
The staff file, the signed policies, the diary — exported in a press, because the evidence already exists.
Your menu becomes a confirmed, dated 14-allergen matrix your cook signed off — download the PDF, hand it over.
Send the course to your team by text; take yours on your phone tonight. Records and certificates, kept.
You’re not buying compliance management. You’re buying the ability to show you’re safe on the day someone asks — because by then the evidence has to already exist. Here’s the pain, and what a small monthly fee removes.
Paediatric first aid every three years. Safeguarding training every two. A reference before day one. A DBS recorded once, in the right place. It only takes one to slip out of a spreadsheet nobody remembered to open.
Every certificate and check on one lattice per staff member, chased before it lapses — with the prompt going to the right person, not to a spreadsheet that waits to be opened.
A parent complains about a moment on Tuesday morning. Were you covered? Today, no record exists either way — so you’re defending a moment you can’t reconstruct.
A 15-second Room Check gives a timestamped answer per room, per day: it met the ratio calculation, or it was short by one with the fix you made — written down at the time, not remembered afterwards.
The staff file, the checks, the signed policies, the diary — assembled in a panic the night before, or on the morning an inspector is already in the building and asking for it first.
One consistent, dated story you export in a press: staff suitability records, DBS and first-aid cover, signed policies, the statutory diary. The evidence is already there when someone asks — because you can’t build it after.
A drawer of policies nobody has read, nobody has signed, and nobody is quite sure is current — the kind of paper compliance that falls apart the moment it’s tested.
A grounded policy pack, ready to adopt on day one, that your DSL and staff actually e-sign — with an audit trail of who signed what, and when.
The honest list of what’s live today. Where something is still in preview, we say so plainly.
Accident, medication, complaints, fire drills, safeguarding concerns, visitor records and more — photo evidence attached, exportable in one press as an inspection pack.
Timestamped ratio evidence per room, per day — the picture above, from a 15-second manual check against your register. No integration required.
References-before-recruitment, identity, qualifications, DBS and right-to-work checks recorded in the right order, composing the vetting record inspectors ask for first.
Safeguarding training (2-yearly), paediatric first aid (3-yearly), DSL training and the annual ICO fee — each prompted to the right person before it lapses.
A source-grounded EYFS policy set — safeguarding, whistleblowing, attendance, mobile-phone and more — ready for your DSL and staff to adopt and e-sign, with an audit trail.
Safeguarding, induction, allergy and medication awareness modules with certificates and team progress — each one checks what your staff already know and teaches only the gaps.
One picture across every setting you run, with each staff member’s evidence attributable to the site they work in — built for the owner-manager of one to five settings.
Upload your menu and AI drafts the 14-allergen matrix dish by dish, from a library of 750+ ratified UK dishes. Your cook confirms every row against your own recipes — nothing is auto-certified.
Straight about the edges: paediatric first aid stays face-to-face with your chosen provider — we track the certificate and daily cover, we don’t deliver the course. A DBS has no official expiry date; re-check prompts follow the policy you set, never an invented deadline. NurseryGuard supports and evidences your EYFS compliance; it does not replace the provider’s legal responsibility.
If your setting serves food, you’re a food business — and the EYFS (3.64–3.65) requires you to obtain and act on every child’s dietary needs and allergies. Send us your menu — a photo of the kitchen’s printed sheet is fine — and NurseryGuard’s AI drafts the full 14-allergen matrix dish by dish, matched against a library of 750+ ratified UK dishes. Your cook confirms each row against your own recipes: the AI drafts, you decide, nothing is auto-certified. What you end up with is a dated, written allergen record ready to show a parent or an inspector, downloadable as a PDF — instead of a blank grid and an afternoon with the ingredient labels.
Live today — upload your menu (or let us read the one on your website), confirm each dish with your cook, and download the dated matrix PDF.
Four specimen documents, exactly as NurseryGuard produces them. Sample data, watermarked — every one is the real output, not a mock-up.
Your menu, dish by dish, confirmed by your cook — the record you hand a parent or an inspector. Open the specimen (PDF) →
Your rooms’ EYFS ratios at a glance, on the wall where cover decisions happen. Open the specimen (PDF) →
The evidence checklist, prepared for a setting by name — what inspectors pull first. Open the specimen (PDF) →
Course, score and date — one per member of staff, kept and downloadable. Open the specimen (PDF) →
Childcare in England is regulated by Ofsted under the EYFS statutory framework. Two changes landed almost together — and both put the written evidence on the table early, where it can’t be written up after the fact.
A reference must now be obtained for every member of staff — including students and volunteers — before they are recruited. Whistleblowing procedures, an attendance policy, and two-yearly safeguarding training were all new or tightened.
The new inspection model grades safeguarding met or not met, and the operating guide tells inspectors to review DBS records and paediatric-first-aid arrangements early in the visit. Your staff files are first on the table — and the judgement is public.
Failing to comply with a welfare requirements notice is a criminal offence. Employing a disqualified person can mean imprisonment — and cancellation of registration applies to every setting a provider runs, not just the one inspected.
Twelve honest questions across the duties Ofsted’s report-card inspections look at first — staff suitability, safeguarding training, first-aid cover, statutory deadlines. Nothing is stored. You get an instant RAG picture and two record templates to keep: the EYFS 3.18 staff suitability record and a paediatric first-aid cover wallchart.
Run the free self-checkNurseryGuard is deliberately not nursery-management software — Famly, Blossom, Tapestry and the rest are good at the daily diary, invoicing and parent messaging, and we don’t compete with them. What they don’t do is remember and chase: the training that lapses in eight months, the reference that must exist before day one, the notification with fourteen days on the clock, the ratio at 10:40 that nobody wrote down. That’s the layer we build — for the owner running one to five settings with no compliance officer, priced as an add-on, not a replacement. Multi-site groups get one view across every setting, with each staff member’s evidence attributable to the site they work in.
NurseryGuard provides compliance tools and content; it is not Ofsted and does not provide legal advice. Safeguarding is a high-stakes legal duty: records, policies and training here support and evidence your compliance with the EYFS statutory framework — they do not replace the provider’s own legal responsibility for children’s safety. DBS checks have no official expiry date; re-check prompts follow the policy you set. Paediatric first aid courses are delivered face-to-face by your chosen training provider — NurseryGuard tracks the certificates and cover, it does not deliver first-aid training.