Unfortunately, we found out how misleading all these reviews are in a very hard way. In 4.5 years of my child's life she attended 2 different nurseries (15+ different carers) and had a long term babysitter. We had a lovely relationship with all of them. The relationship with Deepika was the only exception and the short time (3 weeks) we received her services was in one word, horrible, and caused a lot of distress to our family. She is the LEAST patient person I have ever met in my life, let alone as childminder. She is extremely unprofessional and her communication style is unbelievably poor. She is dishonest, not trustworthy and lacks ethics. We were very patient with her partly because of all the good reviews here. And partly, we thought our child was settling in to her new school and then Deepika’s setting after school. We reasonably thought they both have to get used to each other… but how wrong we were. I would strongly recommend that every parent, especially after school parents to think several times before they leave their child in her care. I don’t think Deepika cares about a child’s emotional state. She creates an extremely negative environment and talks about the child in a negative way in front the child herself, other children in her setting and also to other adults which could be very damaging for the child emotionally. I personally worry about the long term effects of this type of negative environment on the mental wellbeing of a child. I can write here pages of things but I just want to give one example to show how wrong the reviews here are. Almost all of them says she is very professional. Deepika asked us to sign her contract before our child started in her care which we did. She didn't return a signed copy back to us. We didn't think much of it because, hey, we trusted her with our most precious child. Later, when we challenged her about her not adhering to the terms of the contract, she sent us an unsigned copy and said contract terms don't apply because she herself didn't sign her own contract. Imagine this!! If we acted out of the terms of the contract she could have simply signed it and challenged us but she thought she is exempt from it by not signing. This should show what kind of a manipulative and unprofessional provider she is. Please don't be fooled by the reviews. Unfortunately, she thinks she is invisible because she has these reviews and when you challenge her about anything, instead of constructively trying to find ways to resolve it, she uses the reviews to say she can’t be doing anything wrong and tells you that it has to be all your fault, your child’s fault, the nursery’s fault, the teacher’s fault. The best thing to understand what I mean is to ask her about the complaints against her setting and she will have to show you our complaint and her response to it. You can then judge if you want to deal with this sort of behaviour.

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