Free nursery hours help

[Beansprout30]

Hi everyone I wonder if anyone could give me some idea how much you pay extra for a child in 3 days nursery a week, after the 30 free hours, and how much is a standard full day?

I know all nurseries will work it out differently but I would be interested to get an idea of how much people are having to pay

We pay £13 a day on a funded day. So the 3 funded days costs us £39 a week.

Depends if your nursery will let you have the whole 8-6 as funded or just 9-3.

We pay £3 a day for meals. Full days are ten hours so DD does two days and we just pay the food costs.

We get one free day 8-5, then pay for extra hours for the other two days which costs £4 and £7, then £18.50 for the week for extras such as meals. So per week costs us £29.50 for 3 days with the hours split over the year rather than term time.

Our DC is in four days a week, not sure who they work it out but our hours are stretched over the year rather than term time and we pay around £350 a month depends on length of the month. We use the tax free childcare so actually only costs us around 280 a month.
He has three meals a day there

Also interested in this £40 a full day . Wondering how 30hrs funded works to reduce as he's currently term time but in line with school holidays. Grant funded terms are different apparently.

Thanks everyone I think I’ve totally mis calculated and have just accepted a new job with lower pay, oh god I think I’ll have to rethink her hours maybe to 2.5 days

It all depends on if the nursery take the government hours as full hours. My sons nursery didn’t; government paid 30 hours at £4.50 per hour but the nursery charged £6 per hour so they used to work out what 30 government hours worked out to and then deducted it from my weekly bill (btw those are hypothetical numbers, I can’t remember exact amounts). I used to pay around £50 a week and son was in for 40 hours a week.

Do you use the tax free element as well Op? This really helps!

Yes I will be switching to tax free saving from voucher scheme, will have to break the news to DH that it’s not going to be as cheap as I thought

It will depend on how the nursery deliver the scheme
Where I work the 30 hours can be stretched over the whole year so it means parents can get 2 full days for free, just paying £2.30 per day for lunch
Or they can have 5 short days term time only just paying for lunch again
Op, you really need to talk to the nursery to get proper figures