!!! POLL !!! How much does childcare cost you ?

I am a childminder in Norfolk and charge £3.00 for first child £2.50 for second I think u should move to Norfolk n commute lol or maybe not! Good Luck anyways

Nursery in Herts

Under 3s £46.35 a day or £195.70 for a week (so £850ish per month for full time). You get everything for this and can be there from 8am until 6pm.

Not sure what it is for over 3s but will find out when DS is 3.

DD will get a 15% sibling discount when she starts and they will hopefully be going 3 days aweek so that will be £1,113 a month. There will be some money left over from my salary .

nanny-share in oxford - £4 per hour, we pay £400 per month which includes food. That's for ds to be looked after with one other child.

I hope everything is gold plated at that nursery!

In Oz I pay $540 per week for 3 days with my nanny (plus expenses) and $210 per week for 2 days at nursery, so $750 per week in total.

DD's nursery has the dubious honour of being the most expensive in Australia! There is such a long waiting list (2 years) everywhere else that it was the only place I could get her into as a new arrival in the country.

Should change my name to 'skint'.

I'm glad I live in NZ. Full time private nursery would be $170 including all meals. That's under 70 quid a week. Ds goes a day and a half which costs $61.

Hi Mamanflo.

In London my live-in nanny cost me £250 nett per week plus food/board/sick pay etc.

I would give her around £50-£100 per week for food & expenses out with DD.

I also put DD into nursery for one day per week for socialisation and that cost £250 per month.

I was in Kingston, near Uwila.

As a childminder in West Sussex I charge £3.60 per hour full time (over 30 hours per week) & £4 per hour part time (under 30 hours per week), & I know several others charge £4 per hour flat rate or more, up to £4.50 per hour. This in my Town, elsewhere in the county is cheaper, down on the coast.

nanny, live out, 4.5 days a week, 4 children, £315 pw nett

im in birmingham,

ds1 goes to afterschool club 4x a week - this is #72.00 pcm.

ds2 goes to FT nursery 5 days a week- this is #498.00 pcm

i know I cost my bosses about £25k per year... (which includes my salary tax NI, and their employers contributions)

That does not include the food we eat (including me (who eats the same as the kids)) the electric / oil / gas (like heating etc which would be off if we wernt in) and all of our day trips out and clubs we go to etc.

Oh and my mileage typically adds £40 - £50 per week on top of my salary

i live in surrey sutton - my childmindeer charges £8.00 per hour for both of mine (1 ten and 1 two yr old)
DS2 just stopped going to nursery and that cost £190.22 a month for 1 day a week, (about 44.00 a day for an under 2 /967.00 per month for a fulltime place. )

Goodness, my sis (qualified NNEB for a decade and a bit) gets minimum wage in bridgwater for acting manager at a nursery.

She should move and be a Nanny.

Mind you everyone in bridgwater gets minimum wage

kateandfelicity, a friend of mine had the same problem. They moved to Greenwich in December and he hasn't been able to get his ds into a nursery and is now going to put his ds into the same nursery as my ds (near Canary Wharf). Not the most convenient but at least it's a nice nursery. South of the river seems to have a real shortage of spaces, another friend in Charlton is also having terrible trouble trying to find childcare.

West London - £55 for full day at nursery so with 2 at nursery 3 days a week it's just under £1300 a month ( incs sibling discount)

FT nanny in Kingston >2K a month all in. :(

that is for 3 kids tho' one is at school.....

ds 4 & dd 8 months at nursery 2 days a week, east london, approx £400/month. but that's a heavily subsidised nursery.

Full-time live-out London nanny, approx £525 gross per week. We both work fulltime and are very broke...

We're in Bristol

Ds, 8.5yo for after school club: £150 odd per month for 3.30pm - 6pm
dd, 2yo for full time, 5 days a week = £550 per month. When she was under 2 it was £750 I think.

Don't forget on all costings you need to earn more than you pay out because to actually pay £1000 a month you need to earn quite a bit more gross so i.e. £12000 gross a year wouldn't be enough for £1k a month childcare. Made up numbers and sorry if I'm stating the obvious but HTH.

sorry

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Also depends how old your dd is. If she is 3 + you should be able to get a free place at day nursery or certainly at a nursery school if there's one in your area.

You could always look

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I've just picked London but it's covers the whole country.

Nurseries in reasonably central London you should count on about £1k per month for full time, a bit of a discount for 2 attending so perhaps £1800.
I have a live out nanny in Fulham which costs £1750 per month 0800-0630.

Hi there,

we are in greenwich, found that all nurseries there were full so I suggest to get on a list asap... consequently resulted in uber-expensive city nursery....eek, but then to be fair we looked into getting a nanny, this made the nursery look cheap!!!

I would recommend nanny share or childminder possibly?

Asa Childminder in West Yorkshire - I charge £3.20 an hour.This includes all food, visits to toddlers and Soft play activities. I do however ask parents to provide nappies/wipes/spare clothes. Oh, and the child! :o