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About this care
Kinderdagverblijf de Brienenshof will open its doors in mid-2025 on the cheese-farm De Brienenshof on the edge of Cothen. We are a true family business: my brother Dennis runs the dairy farm and cheese-making together with our parents Maas and Gea, while I, Martina, am fulfilling my long-cherished dream by starting a day-care centre on the farm. After years of joyful work in primary education – especially in the kindergarten group – I kept wishing to let children connect more closely with animals, plants and outdoor life. When my son wanted to go to the farm every day to play, I knew for sure: this is something many more children deserve!
With us everything revolves around growing together: child, parent, day-care, animal and nature. We offer a place where children spend plenty of time outdoors, interact with animals and are free to develop at their own pace. We strive for high-quality child care and are affiliated with the sector organisation VAK.
Our centre welcomes up to 48 children aged 0 to 4 years. We work with a 50-week full-day contract. During the summer holiday we are closed for two standard weeks (the third and fourth week of the Central region) and also on national holidays and the Friday after Ascension Day. We are open Monday to Friday from 07:15 to 18:15. To keep the group calm we kindly ask you to bring your child before 09:00 and pick up from 16:00 onwards.
Our hourly rate of €11.64 includes everything: care products such as nappies, wipes and cream, a warm lunch and healthy snacks, overalls, rain gear and boots, plus a birthday treat. Only special diet or allergy food and bottle feeding fall outside the basic rate.
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GGD Inspection
Violations
Inspection date: April 20, 2026
Strengths
- Pedagogical practice provides emotional safety and child-centered approach
- Good stability and familiar faces for children
- Sufficiently qualified staff with correct ratios
- Suitable indoor and outdoor spaces, including natural environment with animals
- Active parent committee and clear complaints procedure
- Staff are well informed about the reporting code and safety protocols
Violations
- The pedagogical policy plan did not contain a concrete description of the open-door policy (duration, purpose, return to own group) — resolved via recovery offer
- The pedagogical policy plan insufficiently described how emotional safety is safeguarded during occasional absence of a fixed staff member — resolved via recovery offer
- The safety and health policy did not concretely describe how the policy is made transparent to staff and parents — resolved via recovery offer
Summary
KDV de Brienenshof in Cothen was inspected on 20 April 2026 by GGD region Utrecht. The daycare center (kinderdagverblijf/KDV), located on a cheese farm with a maximum of 48 childcare places, is compliant with legislation and regulations after recovery offer. The pedagogical practice and accommodation are assessed positively, with a child-centered approach and attention to emotional safety. Three shortcomings were identified and resolved via recovery offer: the open-door policy was insufficiently concretely described, the safeguarding of emotional safety in the absence of a fixed staff member was missing, and the safety and health policy was unclear about transparency for staff and parents. All three have been resolved. Staff and groups, accommodation, and parental rights are compliant without remarks. The advice to the municipality is: no enforcement.
Reviews
Mooie locatie en fijne mensen
Erg vriendelijke boerderij waar ze alle tijd voor je nemen om alles te vertellen over het boerenleven.
Heerlijke kaas, ga daar nu zeker vaker naar toe
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