Careful cleaning for nurseries and early years
Nursery & Early Years Cleaning in London
We provide frequent, careful cleaning for nurseries and early years settings across London, using child-appropriate products on the rooms, toys, surfaces and welfare areas that very young children use every day. Our DBS-checked staff work safely around children and practitioners, with hygiene treated as a priority because of how quickly illness spreads among younger age groups.
✓ DBS-checked staff✓ Safeguarding aware✓ Fully insured
What our nursery & early years cleaning covers
Every programme is planned around your setting, your daily routine and the higher hygiene standards expected where very young children play and learn.
- ✧Playroom & Activity Areas. Frequent cleaning of nursery rooms, soft play and activity areas, including floors at child height, low surfaces and the spaces children sit and crawl on throughout the day.
- ✧Toys & Shared Equipment. Regular cleaning and wiping of toys, mats and shared equipment using child-appropriate products, helping to keep the items children handle and mouth as hygienic as possible.
- ✧Welfare & Nappy-Changing Areas. Careful cleaning and sanitising of nappy-changing stations, potties and welfare areas to a high standard, with frequencies set to match how heavily these spaces are used.
- ✧Kitchens & Feeding Areas. Cleaning of feeding areas, highchairs, milk-preparation surfaces and dining tables, supporting safe food handling and a hygienic environment at meal and snack times.
- ✧Toilets & Bathrooms. Child and adult toilets, low-level basins and bathroom areas cleaned and sanitised regularly, with attention to the touch points young children reach and use.
- ✧Touch-Point Sanitising. Targeted cleaning of door handles, gates, light switches and frequently touched surfaces using suitable products, reducing the spread of illness in close-contact early years rooms.
Every clean is scheduled, tracked and quality-checked through our CleanManager platform, with photographic evidence and completion reporting available on request.
DBS-checked operatives. COSHH compliant. Method statements and RAMS provided where required.
How We Work
Every setting is different, so we plan each nursery and early years programme around your rooms, your daily routine and the safeguarding standards expected on the premises.
01. Site Survey & Safeguarding Check
We start with a visit to walk the setting, understand your hygiene priorities and agree how our staff work safely around children and practitioners. Safeguarding expectations, site access and the rooms to be covered are confirmed before any work begins.
02. Planning Around the Daily Routine
We build a cleaning schedule that fits the nursery day, working around nap times, mealtimes and sessions, often before opening or after closing. Staff, frequencies, child-appropriate products and access arrangements are confirmed in advance so the programme runs smoothly from day one.
03. Careful, Frequent Delivery
Our DBS-checked staff clean playrooms, toys, welfare areas and touch points carefully and frequently, using products suited to spaces used by very young children. The work is led on site and quality-checked so hygiene standards stay consistent every day.
04. Reporting & Reviews
We keep a clear record of the cleaning completed and review the programme with your team so it keeps pace with the setting. Frequencies and rooms can be adjusted around outbreaks of illness, new intakes and seasonal demand.
Who is it for?
We work across the early years sector, with most of our work supporting nurseries and the groups and schools that run early years provision across London.
- ✧Day nurseries needing frequent, careful daily cleaning
- ✧Pre-schools and early years settings with very young children on site
- ✧Nursery groups managing several settings to one standard
- ✧Primary schools with attached nursery and reception classes
- ✧Independent schools running early years provision
As a Living Wage Employer focused on local employment, working with Optimum supports the social value and ESG commitments increasingly expected across commercial and public-sector contracts.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Get in touch for a free, no-obligation quote. We respond quickly and can arrange a site visit for larger or more complex projects.