Nursery fee’s (UK)

From my experience fees go up every April so I would expect this. Unfortunately wages don’t go up as much :( there’s not a lot you can do other than try to cut down elsewhere to afford the difference and ask the companies you work for if you will be getting a pay rise. Child benefit is going up by a measly £52 per year in April so I suppose that covers one month of increase for you. I wish I had more positive suggestions.

3 days £280 a month after tax free childcare and the funded hours.

We’re actually dropping to two days from next week as I’m now on mat leave and we’ll pay nothing as they’re fully covered by funding. The 20 hours will be because you’re stretching the funding over the full year.

Did you not get advanced warning of the fee increase? Do the nursery offer a payment plan? x

We pay £760 per month four days a week with the 30 free hours. The fees are stretched so 22 hours a week yours seems super cheap ?

£175 a month for 2 days after tax free childcare AND funded hours.

Prior to funding we paid over £1000 a month for 2 days a week.

We pay £525 per child for 5 days a week 9-3 year round (£1050 per month total). Your nursery seems crazy cheap!!

£900 a month 4 days a week with 30 hours stretched all year round!
wish ours was only £161 😩

We claim the full 30 free hours & tax free childcare but only send our son 2 half days a week (8am-1pm) and we’re getting bills for £60 per month. Dread to think what a full week would cost us and really feel for full time working parents. They don’t do anything to help really!
Fortunately our nursery’s non-funded weeks (Easter/Christmas) have become optional and we’re able to take him out over these time periods if we don’t want to pay the full price.

£161 seems super cheap , what’s the daily rate ?

We’re in wales so we don’t have the funded hours until 2.
For under 2, full time is £254 then over 2 is £232 (unless you’re in a flying start area then it’s less but approx £18 a day) that’s before the tax free stuff.
I pay £175 a week for my 1.5 yr old for 4 days a week (8-3:30)

Almost £300 for 3.5 days a week 😩 also in wales so no funded hours until the term after their 3rd birthday

2 days a week and after the 22 hours funding we get and the 20% tax free childcare we only pay £65 a month which is for consumables such as food/actives etc x

We aren’t paying yet but I’ve been researching and they seem to vary wildly between places. Don’t feel embarrassed about struggling costs are spiralling and life if bloody expensive right now. Sorry not much actual help but there is no shame xx

Just under £400 for 3 full days a week and after 30 funded hours spread over 51 weeks

I pay £790 a month 4days a week and that includes 30hrs funding but stretched over the whole year

My little boy does 2 days, our nursery only let us use 9 funded hours per day so we pay for 1.5 hours a day plus food. Our fees have gone up too, this month it was £150 but that doesn’t include bank holiday Monday. We use the tax free childcare account so paid £130

I pay around £80 a month for 4 full days but that’s after my staff discount (as I work at the Nursery he attends,) and after his funded hours

we claim 30 hours a week and send our little one in monday-wednesday 8-6.
our prices have just gone up now that she is 2.
this month our bill was £440 (excluding the 20% tax free). that’s with 1 day off due to the bank holiday

My daughter does 5 half days a week funded but my son is under 2, and just paid £900 for the month for the 5 half days a week

£1080 a month😵‍💫😵‍💫it’s insane

Our twins go 2 & 1/2 days and we at around £250 combined a month after the 22hrs funding we use (we go 50 weeks a year)

We also pay around £120 for our eldest as wrap around care

I paid for April £940 - she attends 4 days a week. 22h (she goes to nursery all year round) of funded hours, the rest is paid as usual. That was without the tax free top up.
Our daily charge is £90 per day and £2.20 for consumptions per hour on the funded hours.

So yesterday, we got a notification that our nursery fees had gone down because the government had provided more funding to the nursery to cover the additional extras. After the 30 hours funding, and the tax free childcare we pay £112 a month now for 3 full days a week.

Three days per week, term time only with 15 hours funded per week and we pay just over £500 a month🫠
Cannot wait for her to leave in July and move on to primary school

Son does 15hrs a week spread over 2 days, I don't work so only qualify for the 15 Hr funded as he is over 3. We just pay for the food which is £28 a month.
Considering adding an extra day which is £38 before 20% military discount in the summer as we are expecting baby number 2 in June but unsure.

My boy goes twice a week and it costs me £127 on top of the funded hours. I use the tax free childcare account so it actually costs me around £100. His 2 days are anytime from 07:30-18:00
The nursery provides all food, nappies etc.
An extra ad hoc day costs £88

We must be really lucky then as we claim the full 30 hours and don’t pay anything additional. So he goes 3.5 days a week and it is entirely paid for.

£850 a month for 2 kids to go 3 days a week. 2 funded days and one day where its 2 hours funded and they rest of the day we pay so effectively we just pay a reduced full day price.

My son goes two days a week full days 8-6 and I pay £42 per month.

My little girl does 8-4, 5 days a week, we get 30 hours a week and we pay £120 a month (childminder) £4.50 an hour no additional costs x

I can’t imagine how much we will get to pay as we can’t claim any of the hours and are based in West London 😅

Ours has gone up to £231 a week so were moving to a school nursery in 2 weeks time which is £30 a week instead!

Ours will cost £1400pm for 5 days 7:30am-6pm, and that includes the free 30 hours!!! No idea why it's so expensive

We pay just over £1100 for 5 days 8-6 and that includes the 30 hours which is spread over 52 weeks 😢😬