Cost per day for nursery place - does this price seem about right?

[bellabelly]

ust want to know what most people pay for their nursery places - am looking to put my DTs (aged 2) into nursery as am going back to work part-time soon.

Have just been quoted £43 per day (8am-6pm) per child although will get 10% discount for 2nd DT. This includes all meals and nappies, wipes, etc. Or they can offer half day sessions at £25 per child.

Does this seem like an okay price? We have no idea what the average cost is! If it helps, we are in Kent - don't know if there is much regional variation!

I'm on the South Coast and when DD3 was 2 we paid 28.10 a day (0800-1800) including breakfast, lunch, tea, snacks morning and afternoon but not nappies and wipes. This is a nursery in a Sure Start children's centre.

Now she is 3 the cost has gone down and will go down again when she gets her early years funding.

£50 something per day here... £53 maybe? So no, not unreasonable. I am in Surrey.

Oh and mine doesn't include nappies and wipes but does include all meals.

I am shocked at some of the price on here ... we pay £33 per day. This includes all meals and snacks except breakfast

This is the rate for 3-5 year room I know its a few pounds more in the baby room and up till this year they provided everything inc wipes and nappies

Of course we get the govt subisdy .. this is full price

we are in the glasgow area

I am north london and its £45 a day - incudes meals - not nappies. Ds eats so much - we feel like we get our money's worth

You ALL need to move to Derbyhire by the looks of this. Rip offfffff.

But isn't it relative to wages and where you live? I wouldn't earn as much in Derbyshire

No - the central belt of Scotland (outside of Edinburgh) is hardly renowned for it's high wages!

we pay £51 a day in west kent (commuter belt)

includes all meals and cows milk but not nappies or formula for babies. Opens 7.30-6pm

So your £43 is probably resonable altho kent is a very large county, i know medway and eat kent are probably cheaper cos not so close to london.

Yikes - our nursery fees have gone up to £51 a day - not sure why I am working

I'm in NE Scotland (not Aberdeen) and pay £38 fro a full day (7.30-6.00), inc lunch and snacks but not nappies or wipes. A morning, inc lunch, is £20.50. DD is 2.5. It goes down to £35 per day when she turns 3.

sounds reasonable to me. In Chelsfield fees are 44.50 a day for an under 2, with a reduction offered when they turn two and again when they turn three.

I read somewhere that "high-quality" nursery care (decent staff training/wages, low ratios, top quality food etc) would cost 3 times what average nursery fees are now.