Nursery fees ffs

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How the bloody hell does anyone afford to put their child in nursery full time?
Our nursery fees have gone up today by £120 a month. We are paying just under £1000 a month for 2 and 3/4 days!!!!!
I appreciate that nursery staff are not highly paid and are underfunded so have little choice but to increase fees but I am so furious that government do not seem to be recognising that this is surely unsustainable? How has childcare become so unaffordable?!?😫

Bear in mind it's more expensive to fund younger children, and currently the 3/4 ur funding is at least £2/hour light you are putting settings in an even greater deficit.

Nursery is getting prohibitively expensive and a barrier to employment. I’ve got friends whose fees have now hit £95 a day. Mine is around £80 and her uplift felt shocking to me. Expecting mine to jump in April.

It made me angry that all the talk was about cutting ratios rather than increased subsidy. There is no way I’d want a 3yo in a 1:13 ratio so even if I had a nursery school option I’d stick with the private nursery for the pre-school period. They are still so little at 3.

Try a childminder.

We have to have 2 in full time nursery and it would have been 3.5k a month.

Our childminder works out to 2.5k a month roughly for the both of them.

Make sure your getting the government tax free initiative too - every little helps.

@Bunnycat101 yes ours was meant to rise in April also but they couldn't hold off. They also increased them by a smaller amount in August so its been twice this financial year.
I dont think planning is the problem - we did plan so we weren't paying 2 nursery fees at the same time and it was comfortably affordable without an increase in the mortgage, shopping, fuel etc at the same time.

My Ds is at nursery in another European country. His class age range is approx 18 months- 3 years. They have max 20 children, and for that Ratio there’s 1 main teacher and 2 assistants. So approx 1 adult to 6 children if you account for the odd child absent each day.

I am completely happy with the care and education he gets with those ratios. He only goes mornings, but gets indoor play, bakes, craft, singing, music, gym sessions, outdoor play, etc. The older classes are 3-6 years are more ‘educational’ as well as they get older to prep for school.