Cost of wrap around care

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I live in Yorkshire and wrap around care is available at my children's school, via a private company. They can provide breakfast and snacks.

From April the cost per child will be £25 for morning and afternoon (£10 AM for 90 minutes and £15 PM for up to 3 hrs but most leave after 2.5 hrs).

I appreciate that living wage, energy costs etc are adding to this cost but it feels high and prohibitively expensive for many.

If you use similar care in the North, could you please share the cost so I can see if it's relatively high and raise with the school if so?

Not thinking of raising this for myself but for others in the community.

Cheshire
£5.50 7.30-9am - Breakfast
£9.00 3.30-6pm - Snacks but no proper tea.

Breakfast club - £2 (7.30am - 9am)
After school club - £7.50 (3.30-5.30)

Both include food. DD likes to have cereal or jam on toast for breakfast. In the afternoon, she has fruit, biscuits and chocolate spread on toast.

Whether you think the cost is reasonable or not, it is unreasonable to speak to the school about it. You've said it's an outside provider, it is a private company, speak to them directly but don't waste the Headteachers time.

£4.50 for breakfast club, £8 for after school club. Were in the north west of England.

Seems reasonable, I would pay that. Unfortunately our school doesn't have any wrap around care 😔

Our school only offers wraparound care via clubs - about a tenner an hour. South East.

Agreed.

That will partly be why it's expensive.

That feels expensive, we are Midlands and our breakfast club (with food) is £4 for 55 minutes, but our after-school is 3:15-5:30 for £7.20, which seems like a bargain, although they don't get food. It seems a mix of free play, outside games in better weather, some indoor games, but also colouring, tablets, occasionally they decorate a biscuit or something. It's really flexible, which is the best thing for us!

We're South Yorkshire boarder and my DC's costs are:

breakfast club (£3.60)
after school until 4.30pm (£5.50), after school until 6pm (£11.00), after school from 4.30 until 6pm (£7.15). The cost doesn't include food for after school provision.

Breakfast club is £1 per day with 3 free days per week for children who get FSM. But its main aim is feeding children not childcare due to the area. There is no after school club and no childminder places which makes things very challenging for working parents, especially single ones as UC makes more demands.

I would bite their hands off to pay that! The council has just announced the sudden end of all primary school breakfast and after school clubs in our entire area because the parental contribution was not covering the running costs. No idea what working parents are going to do.

There will still be ratios they need to comply to. Not sure what they are, might be 1:8.
During covid times and people being forced to isolate, our afterschool closed a few times because they had a couple of staff isolating and couldn't manage the numbers.

The flexibility of being able to book adhoc isn't to be sniffed at. Much better than having to pay for spaces regardless if its required.

In Lancashire, I pay £3.50 for 8am-8:45, and then another £3.50 after school until 4:30,although you can go til 6pm for £7.

£5 from 8am Inc breakfast.
£7.50 after school until 5.30 Inc snack.
It's cheaper to pick up earlier.

I'm in North West.

Our breakfast club is ran by the school. It costs £2, but it’s only 30 minutes and designed to feed the kids and that’s it. They have toast or cereal in the food tech room from 8am, and have to be ready for the ‘walking bus’ to their classroom by 830 (school doors open at 835).

After school club is an outside agency, runs from 315pm-5pm, for £8. They don’t provide a snack, but will facilitate the children eating something brought from home.

Edited to add, I’m in the North East.

£1 for breakfast club (including breakfast) from 7.50-8.50am.

£8.50 for ASC from 3.20-5.30pm.

S Wales.

In Aberdeen and ours is 11 for the morning session, drop off from 0730 and 16 for the afternoon session that runs til 6. They also do a holiday club which is 42.50 which runs 8-6

Scotland.

Ours is council run at the school

£13 after school. (3 hours and a snack)
£5.50 breakfast club (inc breakfast)
£25 a day in school holidays (breakfast and snacks included but have to provide a packed lunch)

Seems expensive to me. Ours is £3.50 for breakfast club, run by school and £9.50 for ASC run by a nearby nursery. Both include food. Proper breakfast in the morning and lots of snack choices at ASC.

And you can pay for both via the childcare account so only 80% of it. A full day of wraparound for me would therefore cost £10.40.

Thats so expensive 🙈 is it run by the school or an external company?

We pay £4 for breakfast club which is 90mins and 2 portions of food and then £5 for 90mins after school club with a snack

North West, school run before and after school care.

£3.50 for AM (opens 7.30am - school starts 8.40am) they have breakfast and games/colouring etc.

£7.50 for PM (from end of school 3.15pm until 5.45pm), offers snacks, which are quite often sandwiches, pancakes, pitta hummus, a small dessert of cupackes/biscuits....for my children they mostly don't need a big tea afterwards. Again games, colouring and outdoor play available.

I should say, that the ataff who run it are a mix of school staff (TAs and dinnertime supervisors) and some who are employed by the LA solely to work at the club, it is a LA facility for the school.

Blimey I think that's a lot. I pay £5 for breakfast club and £11 for ASC which means I have 7.45am-6pm covered. And I'm in London!

I'm in the midlands. Breakfast club is £3, from 7.30 till start of school including a light breakfast.

After school is £3,£5 or £8 depending on how long you stay. The £8 session is for up to 5.45 and includes dinner.

It is run by the school though, not an external provider