This city-centre nursery is the perfect environment for your little one to thrive and is great for commuters

In our ever-busy lives, balancing work and study commitments with the pressures of finding reliable childcare can be challenging. When hunting for a nursery to entrust with the wellbeing of their little ones, parents look for a facility that can meet the many needs of their children, whilst making their day-to-day lives as easy and stress-free as possible.

Although for some, the idea of having all of that support under one roof might sound like a pipe dream, there's one Greater Manchester-based nursery which works hard to ensure the needs of their families are met, no matter what their background.

Kids Planet Salford Quays, conveniently located in Exchange Quay, cater for children from six weeks old to five years old, and run four rooms including the Baby Room, Tots Room, Toddler Room and the Preschool Room. With 24 staff members on the roster, there's always multiple members of eagle-eyed staff around to ensure that each child is thriving.

Harbouring a thoughtful and holistic approach to childcare, the Ofsted outstanding nursery built its ethos based on an amalgamation of well-known childcare studies and theorists to ensure that they are covering all bases of child development in a healthy and joyful way. To find out more, we spoke to the manager of Kids Planet Salford Quays, Gemma Corpe, who has been working in childcare for over 16 years and has been at Kids Planet for the last six of them.

Gemma explained: “Kids Planet really uses a holistic approach to the children's learning, so we tend to take little bits of different theories. We put them all together to create a melting pot of different learning opportunities for the children. We think it gives the children the best approach because we’re not tied to any one