Childcare costs

[RagDoll]

interested to compare childcare costs across the country ... pls post what part of the country you are in, what sort of childcare you have (nursery, childminder, daynursery etc) and how much per hour or per day you have to pay.

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I pay £2.90 per hour for a childminder in Hertfordshire but supply all nappies, wipes, food and drink. We also pay hers and our holidays (so try and combine if poss). She is great and I think she is quite cheap for the area.

Bozza - at ds's nursery they are only allowed to administor Calpol if you have provided sachets and previously signed a consent form. They also make the parent sign a form after each dose to ackowledge that the parent has been informed.

I can't believe that most of your nurseries provide meals!! I'm going to have to shop around coz I think I'm getting a rough deal!!

Apparently our council won't allow the administration of calpol because a child needing calpol isn't well enough to be at nursery. Wish my employers though that when I'm dosing myself with ibuprofen or whatever... Anyway in the past when DS has been teething I have given him a "just in case" dose of calpol just before leaving the house. Other medication eg antibiotics and calgel (which is allowed) have the same rules as you Mum2Toby.

ooh as a Surrey-ite (who doesn't get paid London weighting) I shouldn't look at this thread, its just tooooo depressing..but for your info's sake I pay £44 a day per child at nursery (a chain). That's £10k a year full time...times two..ouch!

SE London university nursery, £350 per month for full-time care for a 3.5 year old. This is heavily subsidised by the 5 x half-day free sessions our borough now offers for all parents with children aged three and up. And boy am I grateful for it. At the most, we paid £650 per month for him as a baby, which was a lot better than the £1000 per month commercial rate locally. And the nursery is an excellent one so we have been extremely lucky.

I must be really lucky! I live in Essex and have a nanny full time. Gross pay (before Tax/NI) is about £1050 a month. But this is for 2 kids. However I have to pay all meals, including hers, an expenses of going out etc, which is usually an extra £20 per week. But nurseries around here about about £30 per child per day = £300 per week for 2 and they don't get the extra attention etc. WIth 2 kids childcare is so hard.

I pay £70 per 10 hour day for two children at a childminders in London. All food & drink included. I supply nappies and wipes.

We pay about £310 per calendar month for 2 children for 2 days a week. This includes a discount for having 2 children there. It's a private nursery and costs about £22 a day, I think. Meals are provided for both, we take in nappies and wipes (but both are in cloth nappies) and bottles of milk for DD2.
We are in Swansea, South Wales. It's not the cheapest, or the most expensive round here!

In London, £300 per week (£1300 pcm) full-time. At least the nursery provides food and nappies and is open every day apart from weekends and bank-holidays - some nurseries I was looking at closed for several weeks over Christmas, summer etc.

In London £35/day, including meals but not nappies or wipes. But worryingly a few good staff have left complaining about pay.

we pay £440 a month (not including nappies, cream etc but does include all food/drinks) at a community nursery for 3 days a week. very good care and worth every penny.

A full time place in my ds's Brighton nursery costs £27/day for over twos and £30/day for under twos. Ds now only goes in the morning from 8.15am - 12.30pm and it costs £60 per week but we also get five free 2.5hr sessions a week through the council as ds is over 3. I can't believe how much some of you have to pay. It really is extortionate.

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DSs Croydon nursery fees are
2-3, £27 per day 8am-6pm (incl breakfast, snack, lunch and tea but not incl nappies)
3-5, £25 per day incl food
(under 2's cost £30 per day, excl food and nappies I think)

I pay a registered childminder £3.75 per hour, four days a week 8.30 - 4pm, for 2 children aged 14 months and 30 months. So £487.50 per month for both of them. I provide food, nappies, drinks etc.

dcolagirl - if you don't mind me asking what part of the country (if indeed it's th UK) do you live in?? I don't mean specifically, just is it England, Scotland etc. That sounds like a fantastic price for 2 children. The price of having a second child in childcare is one of the reasons I'm having to delay having another baby.

dcolagirl, that is per child I take it? If that is for two children that is amazingly cheap!

Here in Kent the nurseries all charge around £30 per day but do include all formula, food, nappies & wipes.
How do you all manage to earn enough to pay out all these fees? We decided we couldn't have another baby because we just couldn't afford to pay this sort of money. (When ours were tiny we worked shifts around them but now I'm full-time & we STILL struggle to pay the bills).

Here in Kent the nurseries all charge around £30 per day but do include all formula, food, nappies & wipes.
How do you all manage to earn enough to pay out all these fees? We decided we couldn't have another baby because we just couldn't afford to pay this sort of money. (When ours were tiny we worked shifts around them but now I'm full-time & we STILL struggle to pay the bills).

Tallulah - it is a horrible struggle isn't it! We both work fulltime, but dp is off on Thursdays coz he works a Saturday and my Mum is off on a Friday, so luckily ds is only in nursery 3 days a week (with the odd exception). However, the fees are still more than our mortgage and council tax put together!! There is a woman at the nursery with 2 children there fulltime. This nursery doesn't give a discount for a second child so this woman forks out £800 per month for childcare!!! They must be a wealthy family! That amount is totally inconceivable for us, but I SO want another baby.

I'm waiting to see what I'm entitled to from the Inland Revenue, but I'm not hopeful. Ah well, that's life...... so the song says.

My childminder, Leicestershire, would charge £4.40/hr for 2 kids. Not much higher than dcolagirl's. I thought that was an average rate away from London.

Sorry guys - been busy. I live in Swindon and my minder is registered with Ofsted and charges £2.50 for ds and £1.25 for dd so £3.75 an hour for both

I am aregistered childminder in central london and I charge £5 an hour which most parents think is expensive but after taking out my tax and ni, we work below the minimum wage looking after parents most precious gift?. Sorry just having a bit of a rant because as childcarers we are suppose to work for free!!