To ask how much you pay monthly for childcare with 30 funded hours?

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I will either work 2, 3 or 4 full days (depending on financially viability) after mat leave but I haven’t given birth yet. I’m trying to plan ahead. My local Kids Planet nursery refuses to give a quote until I’m actually registering my baby.

can anyone give some insight please? I have ASD and need to plan our post-mat leave budget and set up spreadsheets etc as I like to be prepared haha!

I pay around £950 per month for a full time 3 year old with the 30 funded hours stretched over the full year. It's 2x free days year round. I use tax free childcare on that so it's around 20% less in reality than the invoice.

I pay £170 ISH a month for 3 days 8-5 then get 20% off of that when I put the money into the portal. I don't stretch it over the year, term time only (I'm a student so can manage the holidays at the moment).

3 days a week** that should say.

I pay £75 a month for three full days 8-5 term time only

£300 a month for two and a half days a week all year round. plus tax free childcare account takes 20% off that too so more like £250

We've got stretched funding too, so government money only covers about 22 hours per week. For our daughter to do 3 days per month it's £300 for top up hours and consumables
Using the tax Free Childcare that costs us £240 per month
Hope that helps

I think this depends a lot on the nursery so this might not be helpful (btw I find it is strange that your nursery won’t tell you even a ballpark figure)… I pay £890/month for 4 full days with 30 funded hours.

Youngest goes 2 days a week 8am-6pm, the invoice is for £125 a month. I pay for it using tax-free childcare so it actually costs me closer to £100 a month from my pocket. Private nursery, funding stretched across 51 weeks of the year.

Eldest goes to a different nursery and the invoice for 8am-530pm for 3 days a week stretched funding for 51 weeks is £300 a month. Again, I pay using tax-free childcare so I actually pay about £240 a month.

Every nursery applies the funding slightly differently!

£100 a term. I’ve managed to flex my hours so that DC can go to a preschool. I start at 7am so I can do pick up and husband does the drop off. She does 1 day at grandparents 2 days at nursery one at a childminders who will cover the preschool holidays. It makes a huge difference from the £1000 plus a month I was paying with the other two.

We pay £650 for 4 full days a week (8-6) all year round. That’s after tax free childcare is taken off.

I find it weird your nursery won't give you a quote. When I was looking at nurseries there were different amounts dependent on how they stretched the hours but for the big chains it seems 2 days are pretty much covered without add ons. I think Busy bees have a calculator on their website? Definitely worth looking around.
I found a childminder in the end who doesn't charge for add ons (we provide).

Baby not yet born but we have a nursery place secured and will be paying £460 (I think, very much thereabouts!) for 3 days 8-6pm, all year round.