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?

South Midlands £8 for 3.15 - 6pm

£18 here and the only snack included is a few rice cakes and a bit of fruit. Before school is £7 for the hour. Childminder's charge between £6 & £7 per hour.
I'd naively been looking forward to how cheap my childcare would be when the DC were at primary school but it's still costing me £50 per day . I am so glad we didn't have a third as I earn a good salary but childcare and commute costs take up a large percentage of it.

£11 per day here, with snack, but they only do Monday -Thursday.

If you use childcare vouchers or the govt account thingy, it brings it down to about £3 an hour which I think is good.
And my ds likes it which is a bonus.

Sounds expensive to me, in County Durham at dcs school we pay £21 for 3 children 3.15pm till 6pm, they get a biscuit and a light snack, crumpets or such like.

Same price here in Scotland (central belt) and doesn't include dinner!

Ours is £3.75ph, they get toast and jam, marmite, etc.

just contemplating yes many in London are!

Not bad at all. Nearly three hours of being looked after five days a week for under three pounds a day. A bargain!

$35 Australian- £17 or so. No dinner just light snack like crackers

Breakfast club is £9.50 - which is 7.30 opening.

Afternoon club is £14.50, school pick up 3.15 until 6pm but I fetch her at 5.30pm

Gosh ours is £8 south east London - although only for just over 2 hours 3.45 - 5.50. Run by school tas in school. If you want them to do a sports / art club that is £9 (for an hour mins) and no discount on after school club.

3 hours of qualified childcare, activities and dinner for £4.50 an hour!

That’s an AMAZING bargain!!

Seems fairly cheap. The breakfast club at my DC’s school is £4 per child per day (I have three) which may seem fair except it only opens 45 minutes before school does so not even an hour. They’re also only fed a slice of jam on toast or a bowl of basic cereal.

Ours is 7.50 but finishs at 5.30 making normal office hrs impossible! Its rural and nearest town with decent jobs at least 45 mins away

Less then £5ph and get fed. Seem a good deal

The school I’m governor at charges £11 PER HOUR

Ours is £4 until 4:30 or £8 until 5:30 plus £1 for tea (sandwich, fruit and cake). It’s very flexible, you just use the days you need and then pay at the end of the month.

Town outside of Manchester... £4 for 3:30-5:30, they get snacky tea. Looking at some of the costs I feel very lucky, especially as its an Outstanding rated nursery.

I suppose "cheap" or "expensive" depend entirely on what you’re comparing with.......

Other clubs, even if that means moving schools?

Other types of care? (£14 might buy half an hour's care for an elderly relative. You’d get very little change out of £14 for a 20 minute dog-walk service round here.)

Other childcare facilities?

The cost of giving up work in order to save on childcare?

Another consideration is that you’d probably pay £5+ just for the meal in any other food business, so the price per hour for the care element is an amazing £3.

If you’re considering changing, be aware of the likely disruptive effect for the child. Also weigh up the quality of care/service. Do you want DC to have the cheapest you can find, or the best you can afford?

Ours is £3.50 for breakfast club (7.30-8.45) then £3.50 for 3pm-4pm, £6 for 3pm-5pm or £8 for 3pm-6pm.

Breakfast is £3.50.
After school is £9.
This is in Hampshire.
Run by TA's and paid staff (no teachers).
Wraps and sandwiches for tea. Kids really enjoy it, I'm often moaned at if I pick up early because they're in the middle of something.

Obviously it depends if its affiliated with the school or not. Our school has a breakfast club which is £1.
Private provider is £10.
School has no afterschool offering and the private provider is £14 for 3-6 with a snack.
I live in Scotland and nowhere particularly affluent.

£12.35 here, 3:40-6. Midlands.

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I sympathise, I too naively thought we'd be paying less by now and is too the main reason we can't have a 3rd (well perhaps won't rather than can't, I couldn't/wouldn't give up work).

Our is 3:15-6pm and £5!! I hadn't really thought about how cheap that is!!!