Nursery fee (UK only)

There's a lot of factors which will change the answer. How old will your baby be when they go in? Where in the country are you? My 9 month old now gets the 30 funded hours and we spend circa £300-£350pcm for 3 days a week, east of England.
EDIT, that's before the tax free childcare comes off

3 times a week babysitter: £1248 for 4 weeks.
From next week nursery: 3 times a week £470/month. (Including 30 funded hours+ tax free childcare, without all of this, it would have been £1305/month)

£230per month for 3 full days (8-6) a week

8-1 3x a week, £184 a month

It really depends on the nursery so the answers you receive are going to vary so much. Best thing to do is contact visit nursery and childminder and ask for a cost breakdown

Now with the 30 funded hours and tax free childcare it’s £270 a month for three days in our nursery

My baby's birthday missed the cut off day for the 30 hours free funding by 8 days! So she will start nursery on 1st April next year and we will have to pay full price for 6 months until September. It's going to be just under £700 for only 2 days a week! X

I’m paying £155 pm for 4x morning sessions pw at a nursery (5.5hours a day) that’s after the funded hours and that’s with the tax free amount already off.

Does anyone else just think the way this 30 free hours thing works is just such a scam? Our nursery just hiked their prices up so I’m not sure we’re actually benefiting at all from the extra 15 hours. All nurseries choose how much the top up they charge is and their fees for the non funded hours and it just seems like these have been increased so much we’re not getting anything! We’re going to look at other nurseries to see if there are cheaper options as at the moment I can’t afford to work full time 😩 are other people struggling with this?!

We’ll be using a child minder x 3 days a week 8-5 with the 30 hrs funding it’ll cost us around 100£ a month.

As an American I’m shocked at how inexpensive your childcare is 😳. Some of these monthly costs are how much it costs each week here even when it’s converted to US dollars.

We get no funding and both work full time. 2 in nursery 5 days 8-6 is £3900pcm!!!!

It’s ridiculous!!!!!!!

The whole system needs an overhaul.

3.5 days a week has been about £900 a month but will change to around £520 next month when funded hours come in. This is 51 weeks of the year and all food included

the funding in the UK has improved. So working families of 9m+ get 30 hours of free funded childcare a week during term time. Or 24 hours of funding per week if you’re using it all year round. If you don’t use funding, you’re looking at between £75 and £85 per day for childcare.

£0 for a childminder. 30hrs funded for my nearly 3 year old and my youngest will be getting the 15hrs in January

I’m not sure it has improved as the nurseries are struggling with the new funded hours so put their prices up. My friends that had little ones in nursery 5ish years ago were able to do the stretched hours (24 a week over the year or whatever it works out to be) without paying anything. Yet now for 25hours we’re paying £400 a month. It just seems like madness

I think it must be really nursery dependent because before we got this childminder we were gonna put our little one into a nursery and it’s gonna cost us £190 a month with funding stretched over the year so 24 hours a week + tax free child care. I guess every nursery can charge what they want, but I don’t think all have put their price up and my childminder absolutely hasn’t.

Ladies, I don’t understand how nursery can cost about £300 for 3 days a week. All of you who pay around this figure please help me understand.
If you get 30hours funded, and you send them in for 30 hours (3 days) how does it come to that much? Even if it’s consumables, so food and nappies cost £25 a day?

if you use 30 hours a week but it’s all year round the 30 hours a week of term time only so you have to pay for the other weeks of the year and they tend to spread it over the year which means it cost a couple of hundred pounds per month.

My son does 2 days a week and it’s £140 with the funding, just over £110 using tax free childcare. Our nursery charges £5/ day for food and only lets us use 8.5 hours of funding per day

We do 3 full days a week, with the stretched funding (22 hours a week funded) and it's £108 a week so around £432 a month (before tax-free childcare). Monday and Tuesday are funded so we just pay the consumables fee which is £22 a day but then most of Wednesday isn't funded so we pay for most of the day. If we jumped up to 4 or 5 days a week we would see a huge increase in cost

Comparison of childcare fees only makes no sense without the whole socioeconomic picture. For start wages in the UK are generally way lower than in US, while housing on average is less affordable here.

2 days a week, £9 a week for food x

I believe the 30 hrs funding is only in England and may be Wales . Scotland has no 30 hrs funding.In Scotland, the equivalent of "30 hrs funding" is the provision of 1,140 hours of funded early learning and childcare (ELC) per year for children aged 3 and 4, which amounts to roughly 30 hours per week if used during school term-time.

So until age 3 we have no funding

We have no funding in Wales until they turn 3 😩 4 days a week costs well over £1k a month, more than our mortgage

I done 2 days a week and we had the 15 hours stretched so it worked out at around £280/£300 a month, our daughter is 2.

I’ve now moved to Scotland so won’t get anything until she is 3 🙃 luckily I can work from home with her.

Oh gosh I didn’t realise Scotland and Wales didn’t have funding until 3. I’ll stop my moaning! 🤣

Full time nursery, 1k a month, that's with 30hrs funding and a full time discount taken off

3 days per week with 30 funded hours = around £780 per month. This month was £1200 as funded hours are term time only 🥲

4 full days is £800 a month for us (that’s including funding 🫣)

yes but £100k really isn’t that much is it!! Family of 4 living in London, commuting into the city everyday, days out and a holiday.🤦🏻‍♀️ that’s £3900pcm after tax of 40% on earnings remember

With 15 hours free and tax-free childcare, we were paying around £275 for 2 full days (20 hours)

Now with 30 hours free and tax free childcare, attending 3 full days (30 hours) we are paying around £320

I’m sure by the time you return you should get 30 free hours from the gov which should bring your childcare cost down a bit depending on how many days your LO will go, the 30 hrs has brought my childcare cost down and now when I declare my childcare cost and I get the 85% back from the gov I only add on about £180 a month for my LO to go Mon-Friday 8am-6pm so its not too bad and I work 4 days a week

2 full days with 30 hours funded costs us 290 (and the gov also pay 80 towards so 370)

£376 a month for three days with funded hours. In London. Government tax free scheme covers 20% of this.

£314 for two days a week 9-5.30 pm with funded hours but that’s without the gov 20% off.

£1.1k for full time including 30hrs funded in East London

I paid around £369 for 2 days with 15hrs free. I was told that because I’m not working that I don’t get the 30hrs free.

3 days with funding £600.86/ month

I think a lot of these fees vary as it’s different parts of the uk? It seems some of you have daily rates of 100£ + whereas our local nurseries charge between 70-80£ for a full day!

My girl does 3 days a week with 30 hours funded and I pay £816 a month 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

totally agree! London we pay £110 a day 7:30-6:30

Wow ladies I really feel for you!!! My child minder only changes nearly half what your nursery’s charge!!!