Why no prices online?

[Amber17]

I’m expecting my first baby this year, so this is the first time I’ve ever looked at nurseries.

I don’t understand why so few (in my area at least) have their fees on their website. They might have a page about the fees, but with no actual price, only a ‘contact us’ link/form. One doesn’t even have their opening times available!

Is this normal? Are the prices likely to all be so similar that there’s no point in them publishing them?

It's the same where we are. It drove me mad! If it's any help, our nursery fees (Buckinghamshire) are £1600 for a 5 day week (no free hours)

Yep a few seem to do this, very annoying. They only give you the prices at your show around. They vary quite a lot too. Weird about no opening times though!

Yep, normal I'm afraid. In my area there's a huge range of prices too - I've heard as low as £45 and as high as £78!

Yup, totally normal. We pay £75 per 10 hour day in herts/beds border

It can be very frustrating. Some nurseries have different prices depending on your circumstances so don't always put the prices online.
Eg NHS workers get charged £60 a day but regular people get charged £70 per day.

From what I've seen I think it's because lots of nurseries/childminders are small businesses with a limited internet presence, they may have a website but it's a couple of pages of static information, probably set up and then never touched again.

If you put changeable information like prices in there then you need to have someone who is managing the website and updating it. Generally fees increase yearly inline with inflation/cost of living so would need to be updated at least yearly to reflect this or run the risk of having incorrect information in the public domain.

I understand why they don’t publish them. They want you to enquire. Where ar you based? I am in Surrey and it’s £90 a day which is pretty standard

We put our fees on our website and regular new information and events.