Nursery price comparison

[MeganC20]

Hi,

I'm finding it really confusing that every nursery sends their fees in a different format to one another - all in a complicated table making it really hard to compare the price of the nurseries. Did anyone else find the same?

Wondering if anyone knows of a handy comparison tool to do this?

Thanks!

It's because every nursery administers their funded sessions in a different way (as they entitled to do).

I don't know of any available software that will do the comparison for you. I'm afraid it's a paper and calculator job for you. Sorry!

As the previous poster said, it will be a case of working it out for yourself. Every nursery charges differently and includes different things within that charge. At the same time, some nurseries have a minimum amount of days the child attends or a minimum amount of hours in a day and some don’t. It would be a very difficult task for a tool to take all the variables into account

Yep as pp say you just have to work it out.
work it several ways ie weekly, monthly and yearly.
for example, our nursery at first appeared most expensive by day rate, but only charge 47.5 weeks of the year so when doing the sums it was pretty much similar to everywhere else.
Some nurseries still charge when closed on bank holidays and closures , ours don’t.
I did find that despite looking like different prices across the nursers’s they all end up costing a similar amount overall in my area.