How much are you actually saving with the 30hr childcare scheme?

[mpblanc1977]

Hello everyone. I am desperately trying to get my child's nursery (which he attends full-time) to tell me how much I will be saving in real terms with the 30hr scheme. I should note that I pay separately for meals, nappies, etc.

If any of you have your scheme up and running, could you tell me how much you're paying now as opposed to before you had the scheme?

Thank you!

[moreismore]

Was just looking at this for next term. Based on 3 full days a week and all year round attendance I will get just over 2 days/wk funded now. I still pay £6.50/wk for consumables and £4/day for meals. Rounded to the nearest easy number a 4 wk month is now £250 instead of £650.

[MrsMotherHen]

I pay £250 for one and a half days for my DD1 my DS3 has two full days under the 30hr scheme stretched over the whole year so he still gets to go into the hols and half terms. That would cost me £308 a month so it saves me a pretty penny really.

[Ishouldntbesolucky]

I'm saving quite a bit as I don't pay anything anymore. It's a term-time only preschool and he does 3 days a week (9-3). The funding would cover more than this, obviously. He could do 5 days a week if we wanted.

[wtftodo]

I live in a london borough (lewisham) and they give vouchers to our nursery worth 5.5k over the academic year, so for 9-10 months of the year we get £580-620 off our monthly bill (it varies). Initially this was worth three full days at the nursery but since their fees went up in April we are paying 640 a month so it doesn’t quite cover it. The nursery has flagged that they are going to have to put the fees up a bit more again.

[TheCosmicOwl]

I'm saving quite a bit as I get all my childcare for free now. He attends term time only, 8.30 - 3.30 4 days a week.

[Gillian1980]

Dd goes 4 full days a week and I’m now saving approx £450 p/m. This is our first month of 30 hours and I was ecstatic when we got the invoice.

I do £246 childcare vouchers from my salary, DH gets £100 voucher from his employer (complimentary, not deducted) then with the funding (stretched instead of term time only) we paid another £66 cash.

[HotChocLit]

I was paying 200 pcm now tenner a week.

[SweepTheHalls]

I save about £200 a mo th on 2 days of full care. Still pay £200 though with lots of hours left over that I can't bloody use