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?

Ours is until 6pm and is £8 with a snack (usually toasties or similar). South Wales.

And they take childcare vouchers. Breakfast club is free.

Breakfast club is now free from 8.30am but they have now introduced a £1 charge for 8-8.30

Afterschool club is £9.50 for 3.30-6 and they just have a snack - crumpets or toast or crackers or something.

We are in wales

£13.50 a day - lasts until 6 and includes a snack - I am in the South East

In Manchester:
Until 4.15 = £3.50
Until 6 = £7
Looks like I'm getting a bargain!

Wow ours is £8.50 with a snack in Hampshire

£11 a day wrap around care from 07:45 to 18:00 with breakfast and a light tea included.

3 hours child care plus a meal that is a bargain.
Some places are cheaper pf course but it depends on subsidies, or if teachers or TAs are expected to run it as part of normal duties.

Remember you are not just paying for a couple of hours for your kids to do stuff. You are paying wages, training -first aid and food hygiene etc, rental of the space, insurances; building/contents insurance, P.L.I. heating, light, food storage, food, equipment for kids to use etc. Its easy to forget what goes on behind the scenes.

Are you entitled to help with childcare via tax credits op if you are struggling to afford it? Or childcare vouchers via work?

S London / Surrey borders here - breakfast club is 7:45 til school start and is £3.80 and run by TA's and dinner staff, ASC is run in school by an outside provider and is school end til 6:30 with snacks is £14. A group of us did ask school to open breakfast club earlier when southern brought in their crappy new timetable as it cuts it very fine for City train now but they couldn't citing staff hours.

Ours is £9.50 with no food given just a drink of squash and I consider that a bargain (it's priced cheap as it's a poor area). Your £14 doesn't seem wildly off to me. I'd expect to pay around that. You're getting nearly 3 hours of childcare plus a hot meal - a childminder would be charging more than £15 for providing that in a home-based service.

Inquiq

Not around here, childminders charge £4 ph so would be £11 max although without food.

I’m genuinely curious about all these "childminders around here charge £xx......" comments.

Childminders are self-employed sole trader businesses, and therefore set their own individual rates. Do they operate price-fixing cartels in some places? Are there many areas like that?

Not around here, childminders charge £4 ph so would be £11 max although without food.

If you're going to quibble over £3 difference when the afterschool club provides food (bearing in mind £3 is essentially the cost of a meal deal at Tesco) then why not find a childminder? It's really not a great deal more in the grand scheme of things.

Bloody hell, that seems extortionate to me. We’re in Manchester and it is £6.50 from 3.25-6pm with a light meal. I only Need the morning club which is £4.50 from 7.30-8.30 and includes breakfast.

The same club does all day school holiday sessions for £16

East Mids and ours is £4.50 breakfast club on an ad hoc pay as you use it basis and then £10 a day for after school club which is booked in advance only.

£6 breakfast (7.30-9) and £9 after school (3.25 pick up till 6, cooked tea included). This is my own club, run privately. It must be far cheaper (for parents) for schools to run their own. Not having to pay rent, insurance, registration etc. Rent is a quarter of the business income. Staffing is up to 70%. The rest of the income is spent on food, resources, insurance, ofsted registration, etc. We are really cutting it fine. Looking at all these prices, we should definitely be considering putting ours up this year!

Hmm not sure
We have free late care till 5pm and then a tenner till 6pm
We are in west London

They ll 100% show the clip and publics reaction to Ryan alone , following legal advice.
If he's all cheered up suddenly we ll know why

Wrong thread
Sorry too much CBB screws me up!!

I pay £10 for 3 hours including the same kind of tea in London, but you also have to join the YMCA which is something like £150 a year (however many days you use). Breakfast club is run by the school and is £5.

At my school, those hours cost £15 per day, including the dinner.

Ours went up in price when it went from being an outside company to in-house after school club. We're an independent academy so nothing is "not-for-profit" round here. The staff are a mix of lunchtime/childcare employees and a few members of staff looking to up their wages.

Headsdown

A £3 difference equates to £6 a day for 2 children so that's about £120 a month. Besides, I was merely pointing out to the poster that said a childminder would cost more that it wasn't the case here. But calm down dear, I haven't come on here to discuss my childcare options, I'm merely interested in the range of prices and how ours compares. I know what my options are and can weigh them up for myself.

Itsaboojum

I've merely mentioned childminder prices because obviously in a local area childminding prices will be important to compare to weigh up options, while they are sole traders the childminders here all the charge the same, I'm assuming as they know this is the going rate for this area? It's more expensive in neighbouring wealthier villages.

Anyway thanks everyone for the posts, I think we are nearer the top end which is what I expected. Time to talk to the kids.

I'm a childminder, I charge £15 for 3-6pm and only provide a snack (toast/fruit/biscuit kind of things,) so sounds pretty standard