What do you pay for child care fees? Are your fees increasing on July 1st?

[Floweryfields]

Hi I am trying to guage what everyone pays for childcare around the state - Qld and country too.
Also have you been advised your fees will go up in July and if so, how much?

Asking this because here in Qld now that our award is coming inline with the rest of the country, wages have significantly increased, (yay for us) but fees most likely will have to do so to cover this increase. (boo for parents).

[didispunk]

i think ours have gone from 6.50 an hour to 7.00

[~Kaz~]

My long day care costs just went up by $4 - to $62 a day - starting next week or the one after? Can't remember. I'm in a rural area in NSW. The cost has gone up partly to cover CPI increases but also because the centre is in financial difficulty for various reasons and they need to raise their prices to have a hope of staying open. That cost includes morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea, cow's milk etc. The parents supply nappies for the day.

The pre-school places went up around $3.50 a day I think (to around $28 or $29) and occasional care up by 50c an hour and the occasional care meals up by 35c to $3.

[squidipa]

family daycare went up i think by 20 cents so now about 5.80 an hour in qld

[MrsFabuloso]

I'm in NSW and until about 8wks ago worked in LDC centre in western Sydney. It was a council run centre and fees went up at the begining of the year from $56-$60 a day. I think they were also planning on putting them up again for the financial yr too, to $62 a day. At the beinging of last year the centre used to supply all nappies, wipes and bum creams, as well as blankets and sheets for the kids nap time beds. At begining of this year we stopped supplying all of that and parents have to bring it in, so really that's making it more exxy for parents again. Not in direct monetary terms, but sitll costing them.
I used to use Occaisional Care for my own kids, and fees went up for $6.50 to $7 an hour.

[Mak]

Wow - we pay $93 a day for long day care and that is pretty average for the area, max is $110 lowest is at council centre which is $86!

[Liviam]

Ours has just gone up to $65 a day - for long day care.

[BeautifulMadness]

Mines the same ( am in vic)

[Pandora]

Ours is $68 a day. We haven't been told it's going up and it's never gone up mid year in the past. We use a not for profit centre.

[Floweryfields]

Wow $68 for a not for profit - ours is for profit and currently we are $58 - wonder what they do with all that money - I suppose you are very well staffed.