I am planing to have a child with my wife. How much is childcare?

Question

Costs, choices, issues, things to know etc
We both work full time in Cardiff Area.

Answer 1

Here is the link to the childcarelink website. It's a goverment website which enables you to examine all different types of childcare in your area. Some providers will give details of the costs involved but many prefer for you to contact them for more information. I live in s/w scotland and paid £150 a week for a full time nursery place. http://www.childcarelink.gov.uk/index.asp

Depending on your income, you may also be eligible for tax credits, which can also include some assistance with your childcare costs. http://www.entitledto.co.uk/ will help you to work out how much you might get.

I disagree with the criticism voiced here towards parents who work. In this country with the ridiculous costs of housing and living in general, many families would love to have a parent staying at home but quite simply cannot afford to do so. It's better to put your child into good quality childcare while you pay your own way in the world than to rely on state benefits, bringing up your child in poverty.

If being able to afford to have one parent stay at home is a pre-requisite for being a successful family, then very few couples in ordinary jobs are going to be able to afford to have a child. Are we suggesting here that having children should be the privilege of the wealthy?

Answer 2

How funny to read someone say there is nothing wrong with childcare and then call others ignorant. The fact is, there's a lot wrong with infant and toddler child care. It's a 'failed experiment' according to researchers, because the results are just so bad, so consistently.

And here's the most amazing thing about that National Institute for Child Health and Development research - even if the substitute caregiver is daddy or grandma, the bad effects still occur. Because babies need their mothers.

Just because some people use child care and it hurts them to think they are hurting their child, they wish to pretend they are not, but they cannot make the data go away.

And, by the way, when a baby stops crying that you leave her, she is not okay with it. Her crying has 'extincted." She's learn she cannot get what she needs by telling her mother she's unhappy, so she stops. That's all. It doesn't mean she's okay with being left.

And go see an infant day care center and see how your baby will be treated: she will lie in a crib all day, except for when they are changing her or feeding her. that's it. they don't have time to do anything else. It is a sickening and pitiful life for a child. Some people have no choice and it's a tragedy. To willfully choose to have a child and then inflict this much damage on her is the height of ignorance - and if you are not ignorant and the facts and do it anyway, then it is selfish and cruel beyond measure .

Answer 3

It depends, I didn't go back to work because once i had my daughter i couldn't imagine letting a bunch of strangers look after her. And second of all I only worked part time at a bakery so for the amount of money I was making it wasn't worth paying for the childcare. At the daycare where I live it is $40 a day.

Answer 4

wow. There are some really NICE helpful people on here
For one thing there is nothing wrong with having your child go into childcare. These really ignorant negative people bothere me.
They can cost up to a 1000 a week!
I was lucky-mine was 500 a month. I did that all by myself.
You need to call childcare places by your house and set up appts so you can check the place out-clean, how they interact with the kids, their schedules, what they do.
You can also check local daycare in homes.If the person has one or two children, it's a great option
check this website http://childcare.about.com
great tips.
Good luck

Answer 5

Your best bet is to phone a local nursery and ask. Full time childcare costs a fortune - but you might be entitled to state help depending on your income.

Answer 6

It depends on what kind of childcare you want to provide. If you send your child to licensed daycare center, it will be around a $100 a week for the first two years then the price will go down. If you send baby to a person who has in home daycare the price varies by the person. If you are able to hire a nanny, that's about $500 a week. Be sure that whatever avenue you use, you fully investigate beforehand. Also, make sure that they approve of you being able to pop in unannounced once in awhile. Childcare providers who want to keep parents away may have something to hide.

Answer 7

well i personnaly dont know as i have always worked hours that are child freindly as i think that having children is a gift. So would you really want your child to have a better relationship with the nursery nurse or nanny than you!!!. I like the idea that if you have children then you should look after them but if thats what you want then im sure someone can give you some good advice.
What i would say is that if you choose to have a nanny do make sure you get plenty of references and know about thier working history. DO YOUR RESEARCH.

Answer 8

Depend what nursery school you use and how many hours you need the care - anything from about £150 a week that is just for some one to take on responsibility for the child's care - then you will have all the other child care expenses like food, health care, clothes and later schooling etc.

I wouldn't bother having the baby if you just want to put it straight into childcare as soon as it is born.

Why not just do what Madonna did and adopt one and then put it into care in the UK - that's a good way to shirk your responsibilities as parents.

Answer 9

It costs 2 much. I work in daycare its £130 full time 8-6 every weekday. Its not worth that much believe me.

Answer 10

My childcare costs £120 roughly a week but I get help with it, you should be entitled to Tax Credits and they pay around 80% of your childcare costs if you are both working.