To think this after school club is too expensive?

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After school club: 3.15-6pm, dinner included (light meal pizza, beans on toast, pasta), in the Midlands, £14 (not inc breakfast club)

Is this too much? What do you pay?

Wow! Ours is £5 with a snack, sandwich, fruit, biscuit and drink

In which case your afterschool club is either being helped with additional funds from somewhere or the are making a loss once staff, food and overheads have been paid. If that's for 3 hours do you not think it's madness that you pay less than £1.50 an hour for childcare?

Midlands. £8.50 here.

£5.20 an hour here....

Ours is £7.30 including snack but 5.45 finish so only 2.5 hours. I thought it was a bit pricey but mainly because the kids basically look after themselves with a couple of bored adults chatting in the corner.

Average-ish around here; mix of private providers (often off site) and on site non profits. The private are £13-£15, school on site vary from about 8 to 13 but are small and don't have enough space. That's generally from 2.45ish to 6.

£11 here in Manchester which includes a decent size snac

Those hours at our school would be £8 per day - but they don't get dinner included!

We have two options.

One includes pickup and is from 3.15 to 6pm, includes a light meal/snack (sandwiches and veggie sticks etc) and is £9

Other option is the school attached and is £4 an hour which would work well for me as I finish work at 3.30pm so would only need one hour.

£14 sounds an awful lot!

sorry forgot to say that I'm in London.

snack, obviously

It's £14 for wrap around here.

So breakfast club, drop off at school, pick up and the snack/meal after school until 6pm.

For those paying less, who actually looks after the children? Do they make the teachers volunteer because they surely can’t afford to be paying them?

£3.70 an hour here, with a sandwich and fruit. Still makes me wince when I pay the monthly bill though (before and after school care every day...)

£6 here, 3.20pm till 5.50pm. They have a snack, similar to above.

Personally I think that's expensive. I'm in the south west.

Well to add ours is non profit, ran by charity.

£14.50 here for 3:05-5:45 with decent snack and loads of activities. Scotland.
Breakfast club is £3.50.

Breakfast club 8-8.50 here (London) is £1.50. Reckon parents get a bargain 😮

Oh, as for the post above - it's TAs who look after them. I would think their hours are adjusted to account for it. It's very well run; a great service. Children are always happy when I collect. Pancakes on Shrove Tuesday and so on. Its £2 till 4pm and £4 till 4.30. Cost depends when you pick up.

I pay £21 for 3.15 to 6pm with a (fairly sizeable) snack. However, I am paying extra to use the fully-flexible version as I work unpredictable shifts. If you book a term's worth of the same days (e.g. every Monday and Thursday) it's £17 per session. I am in London. Breakfast club is £7.10 for the fully-flexible or £5-something for the standard.

It's still cheaper than a childminder and I couldn't find anything with the same flexibility which I need, so it has to be done, but it does make me want to cry when I read how cheap it can be elsewhere! Especially as I have two children!

To add, that £21 is each, not for both my children. For them both it is £42!

I think it sounds really expensive, tbh.

I know people think 'minimum wage' so reasonable, but it's spread out over many children surely ... they're not toddlers ... they're school age where the ratios shouldn't require too many staff members!

That’s expensive. My dds school had an ASC from 3.30 6pm it costs £6 each per child. They get things like wraps, pizza, sandwiches, muffins, yogurts, fruit etc. They are offered it, but dd1 doesn’t bother, whereas dd2 will have something.
It’s run by the school, which we feel we are lucky to have.
We’re just north of London.

North London and I pay £17 till 6. No activities except board games and homework. light meal included.

£7 for breakfast. Works out nearly £50 for two kids a day. £250 a week. Honestly childcare is a nightmare.

Round here that'd be £18. Vaire nice town, Home Counties.