Cost of wrap around care

[Allboundformoomooland]

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.

It does seem a lot but then there is no wrap around care at all at our school and no holiday clubs, frustratingly it's just accepted that most children have one part time parent.

Some of these are really cheap! I don't use one at the moment but might need to start using it for summer holidays some days. It isn't on site.

I'm in Scotland near Glasgow. Our local one is £18 for after school care 3-5.45pm. You can't choose to send them for an hour or 2 that's the price regardless of when u pick them up. For a full day on school holidays it's £40.

When u have 2+ kids it's not worth working the extra 2hrs even if u have a decent salary.

Thank you for all of your help. I looked at the costs more closely and it's £6.50 per hour so does seem at the top end based on the other examples.

I take on board the comments about costs being what they are. The Headteacher is keen to listen so I shall mention it on the basis of making him aware how expensive it has become and the impact it could have on school families, if he's not already aware.

The Headteacher is keen to listen so I shall mention it on the basis of making him aware how expensive it has become and the impact it could have on school families, if he's not already aware.

What is the other provision locally @Allboundformoomooland ? Are parents able to manage if the provision is pulled?

When my eldest started reception there was no after school club. The head teacher had ended the contract because it was ‘poor value for parents’. The company that was meant to replace it pulled out, and there was nothing until after the Easter holidays.

The school did offer their own ‘enrichment’ clubs instead (recorder, phonics, multi-sports etc). These were run by the teachers/TAs, so often cancelled of the staff member was ill/had a meeting etc. They had to book a half term in advance, numbers were very limited, and they only lasted until 4pm.

I’d never known any different, but the parents with older children often commented they wished they hadn’t complained. Are the parents at your school able to get together and research/propose an alternative.

The provision needs to rent the space from the school / Council, and pay staff (plus holidays, Employers NI and pensions contributions) .They also need to provide toys and craft supplies.
Plus the general admin costs of running the facility, insurance, and someone to do the accounts and payroll. Staff training and updating courses like First Aid

All of that costs money. It's not as simple as they have 8 kids to one member of staff so are making x per hour.

It's also difficult to get staff who want to work 3pm-6pm, 5 days a week. Most people would rather have 2 full days in a nursery with the same qualifications than 15 hours over 5 days.

Especially those 15 hours. 3 til 6pm is such an inconvenient time to work for a lot of people.