Breakfast Club Prices

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To any parents who might read this, our school Breakfast Club is £2 per child for 25 minutes without breakfast, £4 for 45 minutes with breakfast. I reckon that's a bit steep - it restricts prospective working times and currently have to use sparingly - so I'm thinking about having a word. If you have a mo, please could you let me know what your school charges, the duration and whether you get breakfast included. Thanks

Well, my dc is in Yr7 now, but certainly up until July last year, when she was in Yr6, it was £2.80 per day.
You got plenty of breakfast with that - lots of variety and as much as you wanted, plus excellent activities, plus of course childcare from 7.45 (schools doors open at 8.45 and registration is at 8.55).

If they provide breakfast they will have tongs vectors hygeine certificates. They will also make assumptions about occupancy. The club may have to pay rent to the school for the room (even if that is an internal accounting movement )to demonstrate that it's not a drain on standard resources.

Quite a few schools in our area, inner city, use the pupil premium to fund the breakfast club so either free or £1 a day for 1 hours childcare and breakfast: cereal & toast

Central London - £3 from 8 till 9 with breakfast (fruit, toast, cereal, fruit juice, milk, milkshakes, yoghurt etc).

Tongs vectors = food safety

Insurance and room hire will bump costs up.
The government suggests affordable wrap around care. £4 for 45 mins Childcare plus breakfast is not excessive at all.

50p including breakfast although DS eats before he goes. Deprived (allegedly) city area. He now wants to go more regularly (2days a week) because his mate goes. Otherwise it was only when I needed to be in work on time.

Was £3 for the hour before school, irrespective of arrival time or food eaten per day. Youngest is now Y7. In Devon if that makes a difference.

I don't know the cost, but at our school breakfast club isn't 'one member of staff', it's a separate company, running a business.

Otherwise, fuck knows what the current government considers 'affordable', anything less than the fees at Eton presumably.

£5 at our school for 1hr 15 mins with breakfast.

£2 per child per half hour, breakfast included. I thought this was quite cheap. Can drop off from 0730, so maximum cost is £4 as breakfast club ends at 0830. I would imagine any other child care would be more expensive.

See my post on other thread.
Clubs need 1 adult per 8 children and at least 2 adults for safeguarding. So the money is going on staff costs, (including national insurance and tax which employers pay) insurances, food and materials.
Really cannot believe they are making money.

With school budgets so tightly stretched, they have probably decided that instead of subsidising the childcare even more (would think the prices you pay are a bit subsidised already) they are prioritising books, teachers etc. with tight budgets, choices have to be made. Sounds reasonable to me.

Just checked £9 from 7.30am and £8 from 8am, breakfast provided. private company on site at school.

I run a wrap aound service providing breakfast club, after school and holiday care. We charge £3 for 1 hr 10 mins breakfast club. We just about break even given running costs wages, rent, provisions, equipment, insurance, training (all staff must have safeguarding, food hygiene and first aid) payroll fees, cleaning etc. Not always as easy a job as people believe.

Ours just has one member of staff - the requirement is one staff member to 30 children post pre-school. At £8 per hour wages (45 minutes work) plus cereal and the electric etc, if there are a dozen children, they are making £30 to £40 each day at a conservative estimate. Other schools charge £1 and easily fund a session. I have been on a pre-school committee so understand costs and Ofsted requirements. The money obviously goes back into the school but it is not affordable for all when it exceeds hourly wages if you have two or more children.

If they were making it affordable for all it would have to be priced at zero. obviously the more children you have, the higher the Childcare costs. The price your school are charging is not excessive at well within normal amounts.

Ours charges £5 for up to an hour inc breakfast. Actually £6 for juniors.

An average morning is about 5-6 children and they do not make a profit. There is a very small surplus that they are keeping to cover any quiet times as the numbers do fluctuate (I am on the governing body and see all the figures) The school is not allowed to use school money to fund it as far as I am aware (unless they argue that it's beneficial for children who qualify for Pupil Premium, they might be able to swing that)

Are you sure there is only one member of staff OP? It's good practice to have two in case one has to deal with an emergency, or leave the room to prepare food etc.

20p for breakfast club from 8.15 including cereal, fruit juice and toast.

People are paying nearly £10? A day?!

Ours is £1.50 (flat rate). 7:30-8:45am and children can have juice, toast, cereal and a hot option (eg eggs). Inner city, not funded with pupil premium as far as I am aware.

I know several schools where the breakfast club is subsidised by a local company to keep costs down. I think that is a wonderful way for companies to engage with the local community.

I very much doubt the staff member is only there for 45 mins, there will be set up and tidy up plus admin.

Are there 30 children there each session? Indicative that it's a good balance of cost and convenience if it's full.

Free and open to all including teen / adult family members from 8am (school starts at 8.50am). Need to arrive by 8.25 if you want to eat. Take up of around 80 children and 25 - 30 adults a day.
Inner city school and charity funded for most of the food. Pupil Premium pays for staff and overheads.

Being affordable does not mean it has to cost less than you earn per hour. Presumably the OP works more than one hour. After the breakfast club hour, the children are in free s choling, whilst OP is earning. May have to pay for after school care too, but when children are in full time education, these costs seem very reasonable.

The fact so many Schools provide this service is a sign of progress.

The people for whom childcare is especially expensive is those with pre school age children who have to pay all day. They don't have access to anything like childcare for only £3 or £4 per hour. For those who only need wrap around care, the issues are smaller.

And OP do you really ink the school is raking in the profits from what you are paying? As other posters have said, there are insurances, staff training etc to include in the costs, as well as having some contingency for times when numbers drop, reducing income, but all the costs stay the same. I really don't think you are being over charged so the school can rip you off and take your money for other purposes.

£1 morning club no breakfast, any time from 7.45 on wards