How much do you pay in top up fees at nursery?

[DAngela]

DS is now getting “15hrs a week” funding, which on the invoice seems to equate to 8hrs and 11 minutes, and then there’s a consumables fee on top of £2 an hour which is charged for the entirety of any funded or part-funded days.

Nursery costs £70 a day for 10hrs, so effectively the funding is saving us £50 a week.

Is this pretty standard? I was hoping for a bit more of a saving.

Is that a pre-school with restricted hours and term time only?

15 hours stretched over the full year equates to 11 hours per week. A full day is something like 8-5.30 so around 9.5 hours.

No way are you getting 8-5.30 2 days per week, 51 weeks per year for £20 a month/ it’d more like £350/£400 with 15 hours funding.

Where are you? That is more expensive then the full day rate with no funding in my area

We are in the Midlands and the day rate is £75 or close to that amount at pretty much all private nurseries.

I don’t qualify for 30 hours so still have to pay around £1300 per month if I use 5 days with the 15 hours deducted.

I agree. I’m in childcare myself. Profit in childcare is non existent. It costs a fortune to run a nursery/preschool with bills, wages, insurances, compulsory training (not funded by the government !!), daily craft resources, replacing play equipment etc., all of which we’re expected to pay for out of the appalling hourly funding rate per child.