AIBU to think £62.50 is expensive for a 7.30am-6pm nursery day?

[DanielsandLukesmum]

I'm absolutely shocked.

That includes food, nappies and wipes.

£76 here

Come to Sweden. I pay approx £5 per day 6 am - 6 pm (athough he only goes 9 - 2)

Sounds about right. £55 here in south east, not including nappies and wipes. Meals/snacks are an extra 7.20.

About right for Oxford, that's near enough what I pay

Sounds fairly responsible to me.

Reasonable even.

We're paying that for our nursery; doesn't include nappies etc but does include food and snacks. We're West Essex.

It's average
And why I gave up my job after having DC.
After all expenses I'd be earning less than £100 a month so I quit. It just didn't seem worth all that hassle.
My job wasn't going anywhere (frozen nhs position).
It's tough finding a part time job now, I can't find one that isn't badly paid.

South, outstanding nursery. £54 a day (7.30am-6.30pm). Includes all meals and snacks, doesn't include nappies, wipes, sunscreen.

Did you think the entire country was joking when it said "Childcare is expensive"?

Sounds reasonable to me. We have to employ a nanny due to a number of factors and that is aboit £45k a year when you add everything in and we do it all by the book. For two kids
Though

Sounds about right. We paid £65 in London two years ago. No nappies, wipes etc included.

My local nursery charges £55 per day. Its gone up by 7 or 8 pounds.

That is a good deal food, nappies and wipes included.

I'm in Edinburgh and pay £56 a day and that's for a 'council' owned nursery. That includes lunch but not dinner and no nappies.

I'm in Herts and pay £88 per day, so think it's pretty reasonable

£33.50 at my nursery in West Yorkshire

And that includes nappies, food and drink!

I pay £56 a day in the midlands and it's one of the more expensive nurseries we looked at.

It's 35 where my kids went still is. Plymouth

North West, £40 here, includes all good food (3 meals and one snack)and day trips but we supply nappies and wipes. It's about average for round d here, varied by around £5 per day. It's an outstanding nursery.

Are you kidding? £5.43 an hour including food, nappies and wipes. Not at all. I think that's incredibly cheap.

My employment depended on flexibility, when I worked, meaning "I want you on a plane to Asia now, for three to five days" and I was very highly paid by the averages then. So I had a nanny to cover day times with DP doing get ups and bed times. After a few years, I calculated that I was working 33% per cent for the nanny, 35% for HMRC and after tax, I was the poor stupid sod paying for it all. Nannies, being domestic staff, are not deductible against tax. So I stopped, retrained for another professional career, and my subject was promptly terminated from the curriculum.

I really am not sure how childcare should be funded equitably, but if women are doing poorly paid work (and I am not sure it should be subsidised, because that just enables employers to offer NMW rather than reflecting the true cost of work) to stay in employment, then the bills are going to be deferred in a higher cost of pension credit after retirement. Or, the tax rate has to go up across the population to subsidise childcare, and on the figures quoted, by a lot. Five or ten euros a day, versus £80 or £90....?

Sounds reasonable. Mine charges £85 per day all inclusive for 7am - 6.30pm in the south east