How much do you pay for a child in nursery with the 30 hours?

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Ds is able to access the 30 free hours fairly soon, which was going to come as an enormous relief! However, from talking to others there seems to be little to no difference in what you actually pay - surely this can’t be right?

£40 a day.

When my ds got his 30 free hours i only had to pay £10 a week to cover lunchtime supervision, had to supply lunch ourselves and didnt use any before or after school hours.

Our bill went from around 675 to 475. I was gutted.

Ours went from £1500 to about £900. It was a massive difference.

When mine kicks in next month i'll be about £75 a month better off , thats based on a full time place and my bill is averaged over the year to take into account the holiday periods where the 30hrs aren't paid.

Depends how much they are in nursery over the year/per week and if there are any extras nursery require you to pay eg lunches. My child is term time only, <30 hours per week, and nursery doesn’t charge any extras, so I don’t pay anything.

Sorry that should have said it was c£1000 a month. She was full time.

£17 a week whether you get 15 or 30 free hours. He goes 4 days a week (2 free - stretched for 52 weeks). So I'm still paying around £1660 a month (depending on 4 or 5 week months) as I also have a baby there for 4 days too 😅

I should add, all food, nappies, materials etc are included.

My DD went from being PT at a CM to being full-time at a CM and nursery on different days. So we pay around the same.

Ours went from average £500 a month to £110 a month. DC2 attends for 2 days a week (8-6) and we've stretched the 30 hours funding to cover the 51 weeks a year she attends, so use 20 a week. The £110 comes from the supplement fee which was £13 a day, but has gone up to £14.50 a day this month. If she attended anymore days we'd have to pay full price for those days as the 2 uses all her funding.

Mine would be £9.50 a day for 7:30 until 5:30. The 30hrs would cover the school day 8:45 until 3:15 (they basically give you half an hour free to make it fit school hours) and then it's £3.50 for breakfast club and £6 for after school club. This is at a preschool at the local primary school. No care in the school holidays though.

Oh, we have to provide packed lunch too

DD goes full time which used to be c £800 to £1000 a month and now its c £450 to £600 a month (this is all after we have taken off the 20% childcare money). She does the full year as well so it actually works out as 22.5 hours a week.

Mind will go from £600 a month to £50

We don’t pay anything, term time only in a pre-school nursery

Thanks for these, it’s really helpful. He goes for three days a week, at the moment I pay around £650 a month (that’s with the tax free childcare added - the actual cost is more.)

For one year I will have two in three days a week and will have to pay the full price for the little one: if it’s similar cost I won’t be bringing much home!

You get 30 hours per week term time so likely pay about 15 per day to use them across 2 days. You've then got 2.5 hours spare based on an 8-6 day and 22.5 hour per week stretch so basically full price for the third. Based on our nursery that would be a total of about £450 per month. The other 2 days full time would be full price too but likely get you some sort of full time discount so would add an extra £100ish a week to double that. Basically 30 hours free is designed for pre schools that are 9-3 term time only.

If it's three 10 hour days for the whole year, that's likely to be 22 hours funded a week, so you'll be paying for around 8 hours. There will possibly then be extra payments for lunch, trips, wipes, craft items etc.

So around £175 a month for your extra hours, plus any extras on top.