Nursery costs - how much do you pay?

izoomzoom

I am a Childminder in Bedfordshire and my rate is £4/h, includes all meals but not nappies.

dizziblonde

pinkclouds wrote: »

Trust your instincts, btw. This is your child you're talking about and his safety is priceless. A cheaper nursery school isn't necessarily worse than a more expensive school but I wouldn't make the final decision based solely on costs! Awful Ofsted report plus poor communication does not make for a promising start...

I'd be more concerned about the poor communication to be honest. One of our local ones (that also does the after-school club stuff they all seem to be expanding into) trumpets from the rafters its outstanding Ofsted report - yet when I've seen their after-school care staff picking up the schoolkids they're consistently up to half an hour late (the school get increasingly irked by them basically doing 30 minutes of the childcare the nursery are being paid for) and they have absolutely no interaction with the kids when they DO collect 'em - it's a "OK get going" conversation... if the day-nursery staff are anything as bad as the after-school care staff.... :mad:

emsywoo123

It's about £62 per day where is DS goes (Kent)

This is for 7.30-6pm, and includes everything-3 meals (cooked onsite from scratch), snacks, milk, nappies, barrier cream/calpol etc.

There were cheaper options but this one is amazeballs.