Can someone help to give an idea of childcare costs in Wiltshire?

[bergentulip]

Terribly specific I know, but we are possibly moving back to the UK, and I am out of touch a little with childcare costs. All I know is that it is very expensive to where I am living at the moment.
How much would we be looking at weekly for the following??

We are thinking a childminder is the way to go. We have two DSs, 3-3.5yrs old and another who will be nearly 1yr by the time we sort ourselves out.
So, I am thinking, socially, the 3yr old needs kindergarten or similar about 3times a week, but if we are both working, someone to pick him up, and also to be looking after DS2 more fulltime.

Would this be better than having them both in a nursery/ 8am-6pm dayschool??

All advice very welcome.

Try looking here it wil give you all the Childminders and Nurseries in th earea you are moving to with their prices.

Thanks! That looks great.....
I've got rather a lot of reading ahead of me!!

Roughly, I would guess that £7 to £10 per hour for both of them to be with a childminder. Your 3 year old would get nursery funding from the term following his 3rd Birthday, but some pre-schools will charge a top-up fee. So perhaps budget for another £15-£20 a week for pre-school additional charges.
While your DS is at pre-school, you will still need to pay the childminder, as they would be still holding open the space.

Thus a week: £350-£520.
All day at a nursery, I would expect would cost around £40 per day, per child... thus £80 a day, £400 a week. So roughly the same cost, but not the family atmosphere.

Yikes!
Although I would not need fulltime childminder or nursery.

But still!!! Gulp.

Thanks for that nannynick, very helpful.

Im a nanny in wiltshire, from what others have said i think a nanny would be cheaper when you have 2 under school age children, then you get both children looked after together, you'd get everything done for the children within that eg. washing, ironing,bedrooms,their meals etc. Where abouts in Wiltshire are you moving too? I think a nanny in this area would be around £6-£7ph but obviously depends on experience and qualifications. I maybe wrong but i think childminders around me charge about £3.50 per hour per child.

A nanny I expect would be about the same, possibly a little more, once all costs taken into account - such as Employers NI.
Doing a quick look at Part-Time nanny wages in the Wiltshire area (note: NET means you need to add Employees Tax and NI, which would increase cost by roughly 25%):
Swindon - 3 days per week, £7-8 per hour NET
Warminster - 4 days per week, £7 per hour NET
Sailsbury - 5 days, Before & After School, £8-10 per hour NET
Upavon - 3 days per week, £6-8 per hour NET

Bergentulip - If you want more info, then I feel we need to know a better location, and also more about what you are wanting, as you have mentioned that you don't require full-time care.

Wow, you are being so helpful! Thanks!!

I am going to either in Salisbury, or near, somewhere between there and Amesbury/Andover/Basingstoke, so heading towards Hampshire.
More than likely we will be in Salisbury though, or North/East of it, got family there.

Early stages, but we are happy to live quite rurally if it means a better place to live. I'll be working in Basingstoke, DH at home / studying / teacher training....

I would think we will have 2/3 days a week of childcare, full days, giving DH opportunity to do the training and study. So working hours, ie 9-5.

I mentioned the desire to have my DS1 (3yrs) going to a dayschool/kindergarten in the initial OP, maybe one day a week, because he loves that interaction so much at the moment, and not sure whether he would miss have lots of little friends to play with if just with a childminder all day? Or his parents the other days....?

Andover can be lower cost... doing quick search here I found a childminder charging £3 per hour, per child.

Only found 3 nurseries in Andover. One had full-day (8-6) as being £35.
There are 117 childminders registered within 2 miles of Andover town centre.

If you were to live in Allington (between Sailsbury and Andover), then doing the Childminder search, reveals that there is only 1 childminder within 2 miles of that village.
This is where the issue will be with living somewhere rural... there may be a lack of childcare near you, so you may have to drop your children off at a town on your route to work.

You will also need to consider what happens when your eldest is 4 and starts school. Which school would he go to? Could the childminder collect from that school?
Primary School League Tables could help.

Also consider how you will be commuting to Basingstoke... car or train I suspect, or combination of both. While you may want to be rural, that may mean a lack of being near a Station. If train, then the Sailsbury to Basingstoke train seems to stop at: Grateley, Andover, Whitchurch, Overton.