Childcare cost help (UK)
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Child will be there for 10 hours 8-6pm
Ends up being around 22 hours a week when spread across a year, so you should get at least 2 days funded then pay for the last day. Your childminder might charge for meals and/or consumables for funded days so they won’t be totally free. I can’t imagine it would be more than £400 a month before you get the tax free childcare, so would be £320 that you’d actually pay.
Can you ask the childminder for this info?? When I was looking at nurseries I would ask them what the cost would be with the funding and any extra costs included.
Best to ask as they usually have admin fee and some other stuff added and depends if they are open bank holidays etc.
Have you checked that the childminder will stretch the hours? Not all will.
Ours is £79 per day and we pay £775 a month with 15 hours free childcare. We use the tax free childcare scheme so I top up £625 a month. Hoping it will drop to about £500 a month once we get the extra 15 hours in September!
How many hours per day.