Leavely helps nurseries and childcare providers manage annual leave, sickness, training days, and staff cover while keeping room ratios visible. Replace paper forms and manager spreadsheets with one simple leave calendar.
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Nurseries leave dashboard
Live approvals, absence, and cover
1
team calendar
14d
free trial
GBP 8
per user monthly
Replace side spreadsheets, calendar guesswork, and manager inbox approvals with a single self-service leave system.
Managers need to know whether babies, toddlers, preschool, and wraparound care stay covered before approving time off.
Short-notice absence can affect statutory ratios, key worker continuity, and whether rooms can run safely.
Leave forms, sickness notes, and approval decisions are hard to track when they sit in folders, diaries, or message threads.
Every feature is included on one simple plan, so you do not need a larger HR suite just to manage leave properly.
View who is off by room, setting, or role so managers can approve leave without weakening planned cover.
Group staff by room or responsibility to avoid approving multiple key people off at the same time.
Capture sickness absence, return-to-work actions, fit notes, and Bradford Factor scores in one secure record.
Track time away for training, paediatric first aid, inset days, or planned closure days alongside normal holiday.
Childcare groups can manage several nurseries from one account while preserving local teams and approval flows.
Export leave and sickness summaries for owners, trustees, finance, or senior managers without rebuilding spreadsheets.
Leavely keeps holiday entitlement, sickness records, TOIL, audit history, and approval visibility in one place for owner-led and operations-led teams.
Room and role grouping for clearer cover checks
Self-service holiday requests from staff phones
Sickness and return-to-work history in one place
Supports part-time and term-time working patterns
Company closure days and public holidays included
Simple monthly pricing for small childcare teams
Practical feedback from staged customer examples used to show the outcomes this page is built around.
“We can see room cover before approving leave, so holiday decisions no longer depend on whoever has the paper diary.”
Louise Bennett
Nursery Manager, Little Oaks Nursery
“Part-time staff and training days used to make balances messy. Leavely gives us a cleaner record for every person.”
Priya Shah
Operations Manager, Bright Steps Childcare
“The absence reports save time before our monthly leadership meeting.”
Mark Ellis
Owner, Meadow House Preschool
Yes. You can group staff by room, setting, or role so managers can review planned cover before approving holiday requests.
Yes. Leavely supports part-time working patterns and leave balances, helping managers keep entitlement records clearer for mixed-hours teams.
Yes. Nursery managers can record sickness, fit notes, return-to-work follow-up, and Bradford Factor scores for each employee.
Yes. You can manage multiple nursery locations from one workspace while keeping staff, approvers, and reports organised by setting.