Ofsted report card

Thrive Rake Lane

Swinton, MANCHESTER · M27 8RH

Inspected by Ofsted on 29 February 2024 under the report card framework.

Registration

Ofsted URN: EY372028
Provider type: Childcare on Non-Domestic Premises, Full day care
Registered since: 14 March 2008
Local authority: Salford

On the Early Years Register and the Compulsory Childcare Register and the Voluntary Childcare Register.

Where it is

Swinton, MANCHESTER · M27 8RH. Location from the Ofsted register.

Inspection history

Inspections before November 2025 gave one overall rating rather than grading each area.

29 May 2018 inspection Outstanding
21 May 2015 inspection Good
14 March 2013 inspection Good
13 October 2008 inspection Good

Common questions

When was Thrive Rake Lane last inspected by Ofsted? +

Thrive Rake Lane in Swinton, MANCHESTER was last inspected on 29 February 2024. That inspection used Ofsted's report card framework, which replaced single-word overall ratings for early years settings in November 2025.

How long has Thrive Rake Lane been registered? +

Thrive Rake Lane has been registered with Ofsted since 14 March 2008. Its unique reference number (URN) is EY372028.

Nearby settings

Banana Moon Day Nursery Sale 10.8 km Kids Planet Stanley Square 10.8 km Trafford Tuition at Springfield Primary School 10.8 km Sports And All Limited 10.8 km

Do you run Thrive Rake Lane?

Claim it to see every inspection Ofsted has published for this setting in one place, with the report text analysed area by area and how you compare with settings nearby. Free, for the people who run it.

Claim this setting

Embed this report card

Put the grades on your own website. The badge is a plain image — no script runs on your site — and it redraws itself whenever Ofsted publishes a new report card for Thrive Rake Lane, so there is nothing to keep up to date. Free, and you do not have to be a Little Bees customer.

Theme

Size

Thrive Rake Lane: Ofsted report card grades, inspected 29 February 2024

Badge (recommended)

The image is wrapped in a link back to this page, so visitors — and search engines — can follow it from your site to the full report card.

<a href="https://littlebees.io/intelligence/nurseries/thrive-rake-lane-EY372028"
   title="Thrive Rake Lane — Ofsted report card on Little Bees">
  <img src="https://littlebees.io/embed/rating/EY372028.svg?theme=light&size=full"
       alt="Thrive Rake Lane: Ofsted report card grades, inspected 29 February 2024"
       width="372" height="148" loading="lazy">
</a>

Card, in a frame

Spells each area out in words. A frame's contents are a separate page, so the link inside it does not count as a link from your site — the second line adds one that does.

<iframe src="https://littlebees.io/embed/rating/EY372028?theme=light&size=full"
        title="Thrive Rake Lane — Ofsted report card on Little Bees"
        width="360" height="276"
        loading="lazy" style="border:0"></iframe>
<p><a href="https://littlebees.io/intelligence/nurseries/thrive-rake-lane-EY372028">Thrive Rake Lane — Ofsted report card on Little Bees</a></p>

The grades come from Ofsted's published report card and nothing else. If you ask us to remove this page, the badge stops showing anything about Thrive Rake Lane wherever it has been embedded.