How much is a day in day-care in your neck of the woods?

[NotAnOtter]

I went to look at a new nursey for my youngest child and for one day under 2 years it is 39 pounds a day - I thought that sounded an awful lot am I wrong?

30 pounds for 9 to 5 here I think

ours is £48 a day for 2.5 + yo

Don't know about under 4

DD is starting at a nursery in Morden, £40 a day (8-6) or £20 per half day. She went to another one in Wimbledon which was much more.

shheeesh!! I am really shocked - how on earth and why on earth would you work if you had to pay twelve and a half grand for one child in daycare net???

DD will be going 3 mornings a week. I work 10 hours a week. I'll still be left with £500 a month, so it's worth it. Plus I have a PhD to finish, papers to publish, pension to think of etc.

She only goes in 4 days a week (and her nanny picks her up at 3 as day so long)

Errr, well I earn a fuck of a lot more than that!

(that is pretty cheap for around here!)

oh also now she is 3 we get about £3k a year from the free nursery place thingy and dh and I save £1200 ish a year in due to childcare vouchers, so it is a lot cheaper than it used to be!

i am sure you earn a lot countess dracula but i would imagine i would have to earn such a huge amount to make it worth lining someone else's pockets with 25k net of my hard earned cash...i just could not do it

'bout £37 or so for over 2, more if under 2. Bloody expensive in other words.

25k?

No no, I pay £7100 net actually once you take off all the bits!

Also don't forget it is not just me but dh and I, we split the cost

i was calculating pre bits for 2 with no vouchers

I am not entiltled to wftc and get sod all in nursery vouchers its barely worth the paper its written on

if they are 3 or over then you will get £3k a year in nursery payments for each of them from the govt

Does you dh/p get childcare vouchers?

Hang on you can get up to £250 a month or something in vouchers which you will save the tax and NI on

we get the nusery vouchers for the over 3 one which amounts to 1180 ....does not go far over a year

Nothing else no wFTC not entitled

North London - around £50 per day at least.

Which is why I am an SAHM.

£46 per day (max day = 8-6) in Stevenage

My childminder costs £38.70 per day for a 9 hour day (8.30 - 5.30).

Nursery round here is £46.35 a day (8am-6pm) for under 3s

£39 sounds cheap, but what extrasdo you have to provide , ie nappies , milk.

South London Surrey will charge around £50 / £52 per day - may be more now .

When I need it (they're school age now) I pay our very good part time/occasional nanny £80 a day 9 - 6 in our house. (London)

£28 a day with 10% off for second child regardless of how many hours a week you do. eg dd now only school drop off/pick up and look after till 5 but get 10% off as ds is in all day.

North Wales can't believe how much it is down south