Nursery fee increase to £100 a day

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£100 a day.

The nursery is fantastic but that’s almost £26,000 after tax. £2,125 a month.

How on earth do people afford a second child in the South East?

£100 a day for one kid?! I'm 7.30-6pm and £47.50 a day!

Yup. Mine is almost 4 starting reception in Sept but we're gonna give ourselves another 2 years to save and then start again lol.

That's not so bad - just over 8% increase.
When the cost of living and running a business has shot up so much, I'd be happy (if that was the only increase in the last 12 months)

Unfortunately life in the SE has always been expensive!

In the South East?

Yeah, even if they were going to throw lots of money at this it would still take time for the sector to be able to provide the big increase in capacity. The premises alone are a big ask. I can't see how a few months would be logistically enough to sort it.

But he thinks that it's all women's work to raise children so wouldn't think a woman should want to go back to work. He also thinks that disabled people and women should be paid less than men. He's a piece of sh*t.

That is crazy. Would a nanny be better - maybe not cheaper but if you’re paying that much at least a nanny would be 1:1 care and more reliable/flexible? Ds’ nursery kept turning kids away at the door when staff didn’t show up and then eventually just permanently closed one day with no notice. (That was last summer and now he’s in school so luckily wasn’t a huge issue for us personally). Nursery places have gone crazy round here lately.

DD is 1 and will go to nursery at 2.5. £40 a day ish because you have to provide lunch and it’s only term time school hours. So really only suits certain families.

Jesus. And here’s me moaning that my nursery (Scotland) is now up to £52 a day! How do you guys do it !? That’s crazy

Crikey. I'm a Yorkshire childminder. Include all meals, outings, nappies, wipes and suncream for £40 a day early years and £30 a day holiday club for siblings!

DS is 19 now but even 19 years ago childminder was £1000 pm full time. It's the reason DS is an only, I wasn't prepared to have to pay to go to work and / or be financially reliant on my H. If I was in my 30s now I suspect I'd have stayed childless.

We did this. And had twins. Nurseries cost about £75 a day where we are, so £150 for two, plus £15 a day wraparound care for the older one plus holiday clubs. It's just not doable for us until the funded hours start despite our planning.

With 3 kids in nursery full time I'd be spending 70%+ of my salary on childcare, so Ieft work. Otherwise, childminder would be best especially for multiple kids

Have kids close together then return to work when the youngest starts school. Yes you take a career it but made sense to us

I have a 22 month age gap, and due to timings ended up with 2 at full fees for 6 months (1 under 2 fees so higher)before funded hours kicked in.

It wasn't easy, but I was lucky that my work didn't stop my paying into nursery vouchers whilst on Mat leave, I was the last to get that benefit, so when I went back after DC1 we paid into mine but never used them until I went back after my second Mat leaver ended.

I did extra work exam marking etc to pay for niceties for those first few years.

Are you sure it's going down at age 2?

It does slightly at my nursery, then again at 3 when the free hours kick in. Not by much mind!