Childcare

The DC DD goes to charges have just been updated as below:
Hourly Rate - $6.20
Daily Rate - $48.80
Weekly Rate - $195.00
We supply her nappies and lunch but they provide morning & afternoon tea.

We are in Wellington city and pay $80 per day (7:30am-6pm or part thereof).

Parents provide nappies, formula (if using) and weetbix (for breakfast as we leave home too early to give it to him there - this is totally optional) and any other things that he needs like bepanthen or bonjela. They provide cow's milk, morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea as well as wipes for nappy changes. The lunches are amazing - they have their own chef on site!

Pumpkino, that sounds like our old daycare,wonder if it was the same place...

We payed $80 in Wellington city, provided formula and nappies and any creams, daycare provided everything all meals and wipes.

We moved out to Lower Hutt so ds is in a daycare out there now and we pay $43 a day, we provide nappies and lunch (forumla if they are on it), they provide morning and afternoon tea, wipes and blue milk.

We have booked ds in for one when he is two in petone and it's $48 a day. They provide morning and afternoon tea and mIlk. Most we saw in the area were $60

I have DD in sessional and pay $42 for two three hour sessions and provide everything. I did look at one which was $65 a day for a full day and that did morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea and you supplied nappies and formula or ebm I guess my girl was 2.5 so I didn't really need to know that

Wellington - we pay $3.50 an hour for over 2s. Under 2s is $4 an hour. However I am studying and she goes to one on campus. I think if you aren't studying it's $4.50 over 2s and $5 under 2s an hour. We provide lunch and nappies and they do morning tea and afternoon tea and wipes.

In Feilding (manawatu) in homebased care I pay $6.50/hr and I provide everything, food,wipes,nappies, the lot. Another thing to make sure you bring up early is payment terms over when they take holidays, you take holidays, or your bubba is sick... Because that can cause a lot of grief (talking from experience)

At the moment I am working part-time so paying $180/week. When I go full-time it will be $325/week. Yowch!!! Man I hope they keep the 20hrs free over 3 deal going! Daycare at the moment costs the same as the local private primary school!!!! Nuts...

I'm in Taranaki, and currently it's $157pw per child for fulltime care (less my childcare subsidy), I supply nappies, they supply food. They are moving to a new daycare in town shortly, and it will be $215pw per child (less subsidy) and again, I provide nappies and they provide food. It will go down in August when they turn 3....

my daughter goes to a community creche on the North Shore in Auckland - she started at 4 months due to my studies - it's $8 per hour (less my WINZ subsidy) - i supply nappies and formula - although as a community creche they are quite flexible and abit more negotiable on price

my daughter goes 2 days per week 9am-3pm (this is considered a part day) - local centers to me charge a variety from $50 to $80 per day

be careful when enrolling of any additional costs - heard of a centre the other day that charges to put people on the waiting list (this is non-refundable) and also charges $100 for portfolios which is extreme! - also look at what their policy is on public holidays etc