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How much do parents pay for nurseries?

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daisy26 · 07/03/2007 10:39

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?

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SANA · 10/04/2007 16:36

£936 a month for 4 days a wekk ( in London)

speedymama · 10/04/2007 16:41

I pay nearly £1000 for 4 days a week for 3yo twins. That includes 10% sibling discount plus, 10% NHS discount, plus DH and I both claim the full amount on childcare vouchers. Without all that, it would be over £1400 a month.

speedymama · 10/04/2007 16:42

In London, btw

Sumsey · 10/04/2007 16:48

mine is £34 per day (North Wales)

HappyDaddy · 10/04/2007 16:49

£150 a week, full time 8.15am to 5.30pm. In Medway, Kent.

bambino1 · 16/04/2007 15:52

Babies 0-2 £34.85 a day
Toddlers 2-3 £29.35 a day
Foundtion 3+ £28.05 a day

This is what the nursery I am at charges a day. Expensive business really but myself and staff still get poor wages!

Tigana · 16/04/2007 15:54

Approx 275 a month, for 1-6 pm, four days a week. In Plymuff.

bambino1 · 16/04/2007 15:56

I forgot to add the nursery I am at is just along the coast from brighton.

lemonaid · 16/04/2007 16:02

We don't have a public nursery available to us. At ours (SW London) we pay lots and lots and lots (more than anyone else on this thread so far) -- mind you I think the nursery is reasonably good to its staff in terms of pay and training as they have a really low turnover rate. Nannies and childminders are v. expensive in this area as well, though.

Nursery is cheaper for us for one child, it would be borderline for two and a nanny would be cheaper for three if we had three nursery-age at once.

Do nannies get paid by the hour? I'd vaguely got the impression from people with nannies that they had an annual or monthly salary, but I could be hopelessly confused.

hester · 16/04/2007 16:07

The nursery round the corner from me charges fifteen hundred quid a month - no reduction for part-time...

Needless to say it is having to survive without my custom.

lemonaid · 16/04/2007 16:08

Phew! No longer "more than anyone else on this thread" (and ours does give reduction for part time)

1dilemma · 17/04/2007 22:15

Over 2k a month (more than one child) and remarkably a nanny would cost more! Central London. My nursery is also pretty keenly prices compared to many other local ones.

moondog · 17/04/2007 22:16

£540 for a month.
Full time for a very good nursery on a farm
(North Wales)

wrinklytum · 17/04/2007 22:20

Whew,cannot believe the prices.I am Ooop North and it is £30 per day per child for the private,lovely,nursery my children attend.Still takes a lot of my (part time) wages though.

1dilemma · 17/04/2007 22:20

1500 a month!!!
Was talking to one local nursery about sibling discounts and they said they had never had 3 or more children from the same family!

worleyweightwatcher · 17/04/2007 22:33

speedymamma - how do you get a nhs discount?
ours is now going up to £31 a day from £29 at a busy bees at my nhs workplace.

2cheekymonkeys · 17/04/2007 22:41

£53 a day (SW London). Works out at about £450 a month for a two-day week. Am going to stop working because it isn't worth it.

1dilemma · 18/04/2007 01:57

2cm it's shocking isn't it?
www I take it you're not London since your nursery strikes me as a bargain? I think the discount speedymama is referring to is one offered by companies eg asquith, Dolphin and others (poss bringing up baby?) to NHS employees.Some other local (as opposed to chain) nurseries offer discounts your intranet might be the place to look. Like I saw it tends to be external places to the NHS rather than Gordon Brown offeng a cheep deal

alibubbles · 18/04/2007 10:50

Under Three

Weekly £225
Daily £52
Half-day £28

That's St Albans, on the same site as the state run nursery. You get a reduction for the funding when they are three.

BizzyDint · 18/04/2007 10:59

i pay £170 a month for 2 afternoons. i think it's something like £40 a full day.

Hulababy · 18/04/2007 11:01

DD went to day nursery in Sheffield which was really reasonably priced. It was just under £30 a day (for over 2s). Think there was a discount in fes if full time.

worleyweightwatcher · 18/04/2007 17:39

hi 1dilemma, no not london!! im in north suffolk so it is better priced compared to the others i have seen on here. my friend is now going back to work in berkshire and its going to cost her a fortune for her 6 month old twins, she can only afford to go back 2 days a week.

i asked today and im swapping over to the nursery vouchers scheme as i work out better off that way than the childcare tax credit and apparently i will get a 5% discount for paying via the voucher scheme

mumtoone · 18/04/2007 21:17

I pay £43 per day in Stockport which is one of the most expensive nurseries round here but its good with a low staff turnover.

sugerandspice · 24/07/2007 21:33

I pay 43.50per day, plus i ahve to pay for bank holidays when they are not open! my little one is 11 months. North Cheam, Surrey.

micegg · 25/07/2007 19:47

£57 per day. And that's not the most expensive round here.