Monthly cost split
Average monthly net cost and modelled savings.
Net costSavings
Nursery Fees Calculator UK
Estimate UK nursery fees from day rate, days per week, funded 15 or 30 hours, meals, discounts, child count, and weeks per year.
Monthly cost£540Averaged across the year
Annual cost£6,48048 chargeable weeks
Estimated savings£5,616Funding plus discounts
Cost breakdown
Children modelledSame nursery pattern for each child1
Weekly base care3 days at £78 per child£234
Weekly meals and extras£18
Funded-hours saving15 hours per child£117
Sibling discount savingNo additional children£0
Weekly net cost£135
Assumptions
Calculation notes
- This tool treats funded childcare hours, including common 15-hour and 30-hour scenarios, as a simple hourly offset against the daily rate.
- For multiple children, the calculator applies the same days, rate, hours, funded-hours, meals, and chargeable-weeks assumptions to each child.
- It does not test eligibility, local authority rules, stretched funding rules, tax-free childcare, deposits, late fees, school-holiday clubs, or provider-specific charges.
- Use it as a budgeting estimate and check actual nursery invoices for final decisions.
Family childcare cost
How nursery fees are modelled
Nursery bills are rarely just days multiplied by price, so funded hours, extras and sibling discounts are kept separate.
Fee build-up
The nursery calculator multiplies children, days, sessions, weekly pattern and nursery charges, then subtracts funded childcare hours where entered.
Sibling discount is applied only to children after the first, so the first child remains charged at the normal rate in the estimate.
Nursery-cost pathgross nursery sessions + meals/extras - funded hours value - sibling discounts -> estimated weekly, monthly and annual cost
Funded-hours scenario
Example: funded hours and siblings
- Children: 2
- Days per week: entered by user
- Funded hours: 15 or 30 where eligible
- Sibling discount: optional
Result: The output separates gross cost, funded-hours reduction and sibling discount.
This helps families compare provider invoices with a planning estimate.
Checking the invoice shape
- Funded hours can be stretched differently by provider and may not cover meals, consumables or all weeks.
- Eligibility and provider charging rules should be checked before relying on the estimate.
Content reviewed: 7 September 2026.
Guide
Nursery Fees Calculator UK notes
Build a practical UK nursery-fees budget and see weekly, monthly, and annual costs with a clear funded-hours and sibling-discount breakdown.
Review the calculation notes where rules, tax years, thresholds, or eligibility affect the result.
FAQs
Nursery Fees Calculator UK FAQs
What is the Nursery Fees Calculator UK for?
Build a practical UK nursery-fees budget and see weekly, monthly, and annual costs with a clear funded-hours and sibling-discount breakdown.