Parents Decries High Cost Of Summer  Child Care in England

The cost of childcare through the school summer holidays has been increased to £943 per child on average.

Working parents in England also face a huge disparity in price depending on where they live.

Families in central London are paying up to 25% more for places than those in the east of England.

A family will pay an average of £943 for six weeks of holiday childcare for a school-age child, that’s a 3% increase on last year’s cost.

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Head of carom family and childcare, Megan Jarvie said these high costs would put a further strain on families’ already stretched budgets.

Private holiday clubs are almost a third more expensive than those run by local authorities, it found.

For parents in England, prices have risen 3% on last year, Coram found, while in Scotland they are up 7%.

At 9% the biggest increase has been in Wales, where it will cost more than £1,000 per child for six weeks of childcare this summer.

For the last fortnight of the summer holidays the family are going away together.