Nursery’s Fee’s

If they are getting the funding from the government - your bill is zero otherwise.

I looked at 2 nursery’s for my twins and to put them in for 2 days a week with the 15 hours funding one was £620 per child and the other was £550. Basically the government only covers a certain amount so hypothetically if the government pays for 15 hours at £10ph but the nursery charges £20ph you have to make up the difference. I’m sure there are some nursery’s where it would be all covered but I couldn’t find any so I didn’t bother putting them in

Ask, you won’t sound silly! And it’s almost unheard of that nursery is actually free when you’re using funding, almost every nursery charge a consumables fee or something else to bridge the gap between gov funding and the costs of running their business. My nursery do a 10h funded day (there’s still a fee to pay, it’s not free even though the hours are fully covered) and a 5h funded day, then the third day he goes we pay a normal day rate.

In scotland we have to pay for everything until they are 3 (2 if your on benefits) . But don’t worry 22 year olds get free bus passes 🙄😪😢 Our government is disgraceful. Our nursery is £62.50 a day.

Ask, it’s not silly they have been asked a million times before xx

@Rosina this wouldn’t be the case as the funding is only for 38 weeks of the year and I need to stretch the funding for 52 weeks.

My daughter goes 3 days a week and with the funding we’re still averaging a £500 bill most months.

Nursery’s can ask you to pay either a daily charge or some money extra on top of the funding as the gov funding doesn’t add up to what the nursery would have charged for example - A Nursery charges £7 per hour but only gets paid £4 an hour from gov so nursery can and is allowed to add daily charges per day, for disposables to make up the difference. Also if the gov funding hours are spread over the year then it’s around 11hours per week you will get funded. So if your child is in 8-6 for 2 days. A week. Your bill each week would be 11 hours funded + 9 hours at the nursery’s rate + 2 daily charges.

Nurseries should be able to provide this information to you. For ours if you did two full days with funding it was like £15 a month or something. 3 full days was £348 4 full days was like £700 and then 5 days £1000 or so. Thing is our nursery has a minimum 3 day policy so you can’t actually do 2 days! Every nursery is different though

We do two 9 hour days across the whole year not just term time and our bill with tax free childcare is £200 a month, £240 without x

This might not help but we do 3 mornings with the 15 hours stretched over 52 weeks, it costs me between £150-£200 before tax free amount. My 15 hours covers 2 morning session (we pay for dinner on these two sessions £3.95) then I pay for 1 session £36 but dinner comes included with this session x

My daughter goes 2 days a week with 15hrs funding but she goes term time only as I’m a teacher so I just pay for her half day which is £31 so in a month she goes 4x its £124 but with tax free childcare it’s £99 that I pay. We do also have to pay £2 a day for lunch (as that’s from the morning session where both days are funded) but that’s paid separately xx

I get a discount at work but before that with funded hours my bill is about £200 for 2 days a week 7:30-4 x

We stretched the 15 free hours throughout the year, not just term time. Think ours then works out 11 hours a week. She does 2x full days - 8:30am-5:30pm and our bill is roughly £217 a month x

Mines in 2 full days a week and we stretch our 15 hours over the year, which works out at 11.4 hours a week. Nursery is open 7.30-6.30 and you pay for the full day even if you drop them off at 9 and pick up at 4.30. With the funded hours we pay £394 a month (before the 20% tax free). We are in greater London though and the nursery includes all meals, snacks and nappies.

Our nursery does daily fee x days per week x 51 weeks of the year divide by 12 to get average billing each month. We get one day funded as our funding is stretched 51 weeks of the year so it equates to 11.18 hours per week. Our bill per month is £1280 for 5 days per week 8am-6pm :)