Childcare costs: Annual cost of nursery place rises to over £8,000

By Catherine Gaunt, Nursery World, 31 January 2008

A nursery place for a child aged under two in England now costs on average more than £8,000 a year, the Annual Childcare Costs survey from the Daycare Trust shows.

The report, published on Tuesday and sponsored by Imagine Co-operative Childcare, is based on figures from Children's Information Services in England, Wales and Scotland. The yearly cost of a nursery place for a child under two is now £8,368 in England, £7,384 in Wales and £7,332 in Scotland. Families in Wales experienced the highest rise in childcare fees, but in Scotland costs have fallen slightly since last year, by 3...

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