Meals & Consumables Charge at nursery?
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Hmm a little pricy for £18 but I guess if it’s all the meals cooked by a chef and they usually get breakfast/lunch and 2 snacks plus milk. It might be covering their cost. I spent on average £10 quid easily a day on my son as we cook from scratch all his meals. He’s not the one to eat chicken nuggets and chips! He will have a bowl of rice, steamed veggies and a piece of fish for lunch, breakfast is homemade granola, with yogurt and half a pack of blueberries! And dinner is usually stirfry veggies then snacks are yogurt and a piece of fruit.
£48 for a term we pay
I pay £5 a day and this includes meals and snacks..
That’s really pricey! £5 a day at ours x
My nursery charges extra £15 for under 3 and £20 for over 3. They have recently increased the prices for the 3rd time. It extremely sad that they try to squeeze any single penny from hard-working parents rather than helping them a little more
He had a buttered cracker for dinner this week. It’s an absolute con.
There needs to be a cap on how much they can charge for meals!
@Raminta completely agree
@Raminta is that per day or week? I find anything else over £10 a day expensive. To be fair government only give my nursery £6 quid an hr for funding and they are only allowed to have one person looking after 4 toddlers so that’s £24 per hr. With that they need to be rent/ business rates/ wages/ utilities. If minimum salary is £11 per hr. They hardly make anything do they? That’s why there is a lot of turnover staff as ain’t easy. Government should really provide them with more funding money.
@Beth so you only pay additional £18 for the meals & consumables and all his hours/days are covered by the funding?
We get the 15 hours funding which equates to 1 funded full day per week when stretched over the year. For the 1 funded day per week we have to pay £18. The other day my son is in nursery per week (he’s in 2 days per week) we pay £69, which includes the £18 meals and consumables fee. Hope that makes sense!
@Beth Just curious what are the hours for a full funded day. My daughter is in nursery 2 days a week 9-4.30
Our nursery is open 7.30am - 6pm so they use the full 10.5 hours in one day. We use it 9-5 but they take the full 10.5 hours off.
We pay £22 a day on funded days! It’s also to cover things like paints, paper, toys etc etc x
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@Steph that's per day! Along with £90 per session plus extra cost for meals and activities as I stated above. Its extremely expensive and I feel the nursery doesn't live up to its cost. Although its montessori nursery its still very expensive compared nationality
Gosh that’s expensive Raminta. 😬 Bring on school 🤣
@Steph also Steph, any tips on finding the time to cook everything from scratch? When do you cook, when little one is in bed?
Mine charges £22 a day and we provide nappies 🥴
£18 a day?! 🫢