Nursery Places and Prices in Southwark

[LocalEditorSouthwark]

Can anyone help a journalist looking into the prices and places for nursery places in Southwark? Do you feel they are expensive? Are places for your toddlers difficult to find? Thank you!

Uhm I feel they are TREMENDOUSLY expensive, but I am also Danish, currently living in Berlin. I also don't get why they close at 3 pm! I need a nursery because I want to and have to work! To me, the whole system of early child care seems incredibly inefficient and hostile to women. Here in Berlin I get an excellent, truly amazing kindergarden for my 3-year old for 300 GBP a month, it means I can work and that my kid is happy as a clam. In England apparently nurseries are so expensive that it's unaffordable for everybody except the people that are so wealthy they don't even need to work! Also a joy is the admissions process- orientation mornings 6 times a year, and only then will you be given an admissions form. This is child care, not breaking into Fort Knox!