40% increase in childcare cost

tooldle

Is it a discount to full timers only? My daughter attended for a full week at £25 per day (some years ago). Our bill was £105 per week. There was a discount for those that attended five days. If you worked this out at a daily rate, I was paying £21 per day versus £25 per day for the part timers. It was an incentive to get kids booked for a full week. Lots of part timers were three or four days a week, which made it difficult to find kids to take the remaining odd days in each week.

greathat

Yes there's always been a discount for full timers, I understand why completely - it just used to be a couple of quid a day not nearly 10 though!

tooldle

That makes it a 20% discount for those that attend a full week. It's basically pay four days, get one free. That doesn't seem out of the ordinary to me.
I can see where you are coming from, but mixing the rise in costs, with the discount is misleading.

clairehi

A very similar thing happened to me when I was on mat leave with DC2.

I wrote to the nursery and complained as it was a big fee increase and money was tight when paying for 2 kids in the nursery. I argued that they should keep the price the same for existing customers, as we were already tied in. We did not want to have to settle DC1 into a new nursery to save a few £ when he was happy where he was.

They compromised by honouring the original price for DC1 already in nursery and we paid the higher rate for DC2, IIRC.

It is tough but the cost of childcare does go down when they are school age, and good part time jobs are not easy to come by, so hope you can find a way to make it affordable.

Lunar_Eclipse

greathat wrote: »

its going from £34/day to £47.50 per day! I'm not great at maths but thats def not 3%

That is a huge increase.

Having said that, I paid more than £47.50/day for nursery 11 years ago, so it seems entirely reasonable in a 'childcare is expensive' kind of way. Full time places were also cheaper pro-rata than part time then, it's very normal, because nurseries understandably want to be at full capacity, which is harder when juggling part time children. Full time was over £1000/month at my nursery, way back then (nowhere near London!) :eek: