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    seriously

    can this be right

    Ive a worker here who is on £25,000 a year and lives with his partner who is applying for a job

    They have 2 children ( one from previous relationship and a new baby.

    Now she has got a job that is going to pay about £200 a week take home.

    he has just told me that to put his baby daughter in nursery care it will be £250 a week.

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    will they get help with the nursery costs??????????
    if so how much

    he says he wont get much

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    Oh I know this one, hang on now lets see if i can remember - Oh yes the answer is one. He met the man on his way to St Ives, his many wives,cats etc were not with him on the journey.

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    Quote Originally Posted by daz h View Post
    can this be right

    Ive a worker here who is on £25,000 a year and lives with his partner who is applying for a job

    They have 2 children ( one from previous relationship and a new baby.

    Now she has got a job that is going to pay about £200 a week take home.

    he has just told me that to put his baby daughter in nursery care it will be £250 a week.

    question
    will they get help with the nursery costs??????????

    if so how much

    he says he wont get much
    I doubt he will get much Daz, don't think it's changed particularly since mine were that age but I know a nursery now charges around £25 per day for a full day.

    Most nurseries are private so this means they have extended opening and closing hours ie some open from 7am right through to 7pm and they take babies from as early as 6 months old I think?

    There are local nurseries which are state funded and raise extra funds through charitable donations and fund raises etc but they usually only take children older than 2 in most cases 3 i.e for their last 18 months before starting school.

    The Government help available pays for a nursery place from post age 3 but only for so many hours a week.

    I put Imogen into a nursery post 3 for 4 mornings a week and only had to pay about a fiver on top of the 'voucher' system that runs. She went from half 9 to 12 which suited me as I was a 'stay at home mum' If I'd had her in full tme nursery then the voucher system would have just offered some money off the weekly bill although most places deduct it on a termly basis - still following?!

    However in a nut shell to have a child in full time care prior to the age of 3 then yes he would be looking at that kind of cost.

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    Yep-it sounds about right Daz,and it isnt going to get much better for the bugger. Ive got 2 girls 14 years and 7 years old and will be offering them for sale shortly.
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    Get the company to sort out a childcare voucher scheme,

    http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/childcare/

    You agree to a salary sacrifice and then get that value back in childcare vouchers. That way you don't pay tax and NI on the value of the vouchers, so you're saving about 25ish %. The nursery has to be signed to the scheme as well.

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    Re: seriously

    Quote Originally Posted by bestathlete View Post
    Oh I know this one, hang on now lets see if i can remember - Oh yes the answer is one. He met the man on his way to St Ives, his many wives,cats etc were not with him on the journey.

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    stop breeding.

    Ok, I know I shouldn't have said that, but it just kind of came out, in a rather self satisfied way - because I don't have kids of my own .
    Don't roll with a pig in poo. You get covered in poo and the pig likes it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by molehill View Post
    stop breeding.

    Ok, I know I shouldn't have said that, but it just kind of came out, in a rather self satisfied way - because I don't have kids of my own .
    yet!!??

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    Re: seriously

    Quote Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak View Post
    yet!!??
    Keeping me legs crossed
    Don't roll with a pig in poo. You get covered in poo and the pig likes it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by molehill View Post
    Keeping me legs crossed
    not the only thing you'll have to cross!

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