How much do parents pay for nurseries?

[daisy26]

I was just wondering are all nurseries charged different. say if a child went to a public nursery full time, how much wud this cost and if a child went there say 3 days a week,all day, how much would this generally cost?

Think they all charge differently. The hospital run nursery near us charges on an hourly basis (about £3.50, I seem to remember). Private nurseries charge on a morning/afternoon/daily basis and can work out cheaper. I think our nursery charges £43 a day, but they don't charge for public holidays and you effectively get a bit of a discount if the child goes full time, ie. five days a week...

My DD goes to a nursery which is open 7.45-6, three days a week. I think it is about £31.50 a day, but not sure. It is averaged out over the months and I pay £393.75/month. I think there is a small discount if the child goes full time.

would you all say it can be cheaper to maybe have a nanny instead or doesn't it really make a difference, or are nurseries more expensive?

£47 per day here (North Herts)

daisy, a friend of mine worked out that once she 2 children at the nursery she had used for her first child, it was cheaper to have a nanny.

I think that would largely depend on how many children you have. I have never thought it would be cheaper for me. Once DD was at nursery, DS was on the nursery grant. So the most I have ever paid for a month at nursery was £750 (rates have gone up since then) which was £375/child in the summer holidays when there was no grant for a full month. With the current rates that means that two children would cost £785 for 3 days a month. I doubt I could get a nanny for that when you consider all the extra costs but I may be wrong. When you get to 3 children the balance obviously tips.

By the time you've paid the nanny's NIC and tax (as their employer), they can cost anything between £400 to £500 a week depending on where you are. So for one child, a nursery will definitely be cheaper, but for two, a nanny might be...

ds' nursery is £40 pd or £185 pw under 3 or £33/£160 over 3. Am/pm sessions pro-rata.

This is a uni nursery and we get 7 wks holiday during vaction time when we only get charged 30% retainer, otherwise it's pay all year regardless of whether they're there or not.

Hi there,

We pay £42 a day full time.. before the grant it is now £910 a month and she is 4!!!
As sad as it sounds, I cannot wait for DD to start school in September, just so we can afford to live again!
Fees have just gone up again.......

With both of the rugrats, over the last 8 years, we have paid in excess of 80k for childcare... (sad)

DS nursery (SW Devon) charges £29 a day (£31 April) and £145 a week - I think this is about standard for this part of the world. Reading about others fees I realise we are very lucky by the sound of it!!!

DD goes 3 days a week and we pay 478 per month so about 37 day (Nottingham area)

thanks everyone i'm enquiring just to see what the prices were like, as i want to be a nanny but just seein if there is any difference in prices, as nannies obv get paid by the hour

I paid about £460 a month for three full days and one half day (and that was with the voucher thing)

I pay £902 in London for a 5 day week. Yes it is very expensive and my no 2 is on the way...

flipping heck £900 odd that is well expensive but then ure in London, so it wudn't surprise me

£900 a month for a full time place here in west kent and our nursery is the cheapest in town.

Very very anoying when over in medway nusery places are much cheaper.

Funny how us teachers earn the the same amount where-ever we live though innit

that's flipping ridicoulous, and i bet unqualified staff get paid peanuts n prob qualified, all different in npton they all gat paid differently, even tho lots of nurseries make loadsa money

A nursery near me charges £35 per day, per child.
Nursery Cost can vary depending on the child's age, some nurseries charge more for under 2's for example.

I pay £650 for a 3yo full time, home counties.

2006 - 2007 fees for Milton Keynes Day Nurseries (Payable from 1st April 2006)

0 - 2 years

£18.00 per Session Full Time
£19.00 per Session Part-time

= £765.00 pcm

2 - 5 years

£15.00 per Session Full Time
£16.00 per Session Part-time

= £637.50 pcm

those MK ones are council operated BTW

We pay £42 for a full day. It's one of the cheaper ones. We were paying close to £1000 pcm for DS 4-6 years ago.

£31.75 for a full day, for an over two-year-old. Don't know what they morning/afternoon rates are. I don't think our place discounts for full weeks, but they discount by two weeks a year for everyone, and a further two weeks if you pay by direct debit or childcare e-vouchers.

Mine charges £7 per morning thats from 9.15 - 1.00pm under 3yrs then they get goverment funding after that and it becomes £2 per day.

There seems to be huge regional variation in nursery costs, perhaps greater than with any other product.

Where we are, in Manchester, the going rate now seems to be around £75 per week full-time. This has actually been dropping over the last year or so - there are four or five in the area and I think competition is greater.

I can't believe that costs in the south really justify a tripling of the normal charges. I can understand that rents will be higher, but I would have thought staff costs would be only a little ,more typically.