Childcare fees as of September

[staringatthedoor]

Just curious as to what people will be paying from September with 15 funded hours added? Haven't had the invoice yet so unsure but my bad maths have said about £500 ish before tax free discount. That's 2 full days 8-18:00. In the south east.
Nappies/wipes etc not included but meals & snacks are.

That's a lot still no?

I'm a cm and that's about double what I would charge.

Just worked it out £254 for me.

What do you pay now?
Is there a limit to how many hours that can be used per day?
Is it spread over 12 months (so actually only 11 a week?)

If you charge that little, I'm not sure I would trust you 100%. Sounds a fair going rate for Nursery.

What? I'm an outstanding grade childminder with 15 years experience. I charge £65 per day which is perfectly in keeping with my area.

Very strange comment if you believe paying double constitutes more trustworthy care.

My CM full time (5 days per week term time only) for my twins is around £275 per month per child small top up on top but that top up includes foreign language lessons and stay and play once a week

If you charge £65 per day, that's extortionate for a Childminder! Bloody hell, that's as much as a top standard Nursery. Your maths must be off them, OP is not paying double what you're charging.

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@Fishcake15 a nursery in the SE could well be over £100 PER DAY.

£65:for a childminder was normal in Yorkshire 10 years ago!

I pay £57 a day for Nursery in Yorkshire currently 😂. It's an outstanding graded Nursery. The South have it so Rough, it's ridiculous.

I've just looked at a nursery local to
Me

£87.85 a day this is 730/630 so 11hrs

Includes all nappies wipes and 3 meals a day snacks so £7.98 an hour

So two days a week would be £175.70

And full time £439.25 a week

I'm
South east

Obv that's not with funded hours - which is around £4/5ph is that right. So will need to top up each hour

£320 for 2 days with the funding (Oxfordshire) ... It is £830 without the funding for 2 days. Includes all meals and nappies.

I’m south east and my childminder is £7.50ph, so about £67.50 for the days I use. And that’s a 50p ph discount because she’s my friend.

I think the fees for my 1yo will go down about half before tax free childcare, she does 27 hours a week so we‘ll only be paying 12 now. The funding coming in for 1 year olds is way more than for 3 year olds so CM won’t need to charge a top up. She does charge a top up for my 3yos funded hours. We have a term time contract to make it easier with the funding and then I pay full whack for the holiday days she has them.

I wouldn't pay someone under nmw to care
for my kids!

Do you know how childminders work? We are self employed and look after multiple children in our own home. I make over NMW but not from each individual family.

@longdistanceclaraclara she’s not paid under NMW, she looks after 3-4 children at a time so she’s paid £8x3-4 (the other children pay £8ph) so more like £24-30ph. Childminders aren’t nannies.

They aren't paid less than NMW 😂 that's up to the individual CM if they only want to care for one child at a time - mine takes 4+ children so actually earns well OVER NMW

Does the nursery allow you to take all of your hours out over 2 days? Some restrict the hours that they accept funding for to sessions such as 9-12 or 12.30-3.30 with you having to pay wraparound fees outside of the sessions.

Also as pp have said, you only get funding for 38 weeks per year so if you stretch it over a full year it only funds 11 hours/week.

Are you seriously saying price equals quality?
Outstanding 4 times in outer London quality assured, lead practitioner and assessor £65 a day .....and my students work in good rated nurseries charging a lot more.

Childminders take more than one child.

Nope! I absolutely wasn't saying that at all, someone else did. What I was saying was that child minders are generally cheaper than Nurseries and that the South get ripped off because everything costs less in the North. My Nursery is cheaper up here than a Childminder is down South. That's literally all I said 😂

@Fishcake15
I'm a childminder in the north and I charge £60 per day. It's fairly standard here. Nurserys local to me are £55-£80 a day.

65 x 8 is 520....