Childcare costs in Banstead

Funded hours, by age

Hours start the term after your child reaches the age: terms start on 1 September, 1 January and 1 April. 30 hours a week for 38 weeks is 1,140 hours a year, and many nurseries spread them over more weeks. Working parents apply on gov.uk for a code and reconfirm it every three months. Key dates works out when your child's hours start.

National rules for England from September 2025: gov.uk. Nurseries may charge for meals, nappies and activities on funded hours; those charges are not in the figures here.

Nurseries with a published fee (2)

Cheapest hour first. A fee is the nursery's published price on the date it was read.

"A year full time" is 5 days of 10 hours for 51 weeks (2,550 hours). With 30 funded hours (a child from 9 months to 4 years, parents working) 1,140 of them are free and 1,410 are paid at the nursery's hourly rate. Pre-schools open for sessions, not full days, so only their hourly rate is shown.

• Bright Horizons Banstead Day Nursery And Preschool

  Day nursery · Ofsted: Good, 26 May 2022

  £97.00 a day (day rates listed: £97.00 to £107.78) · £10.78 an hour (its published hourly rate)

  The day rate is worked out from a monthly price for full time.

  A year full time: £15,200 after 30 funded hours (£1,267 a month); £27,490 with no funded hours (under 9 months).

  The nursery's published price on 7 October 2026: its fee page. Check with the nursery before you rely on it.

• Shapes Day Nursery, Banstead

  Day nursery · Ofsted: Report card: strong standard or better in every area, 16 April 2026

  £127.03 a day (day rates listed: £68.42 to £127.03) · £12.70 an hour (its day rate over a 10-hour day)

  A year full time: £17,910 after 30 funded hours (£1,492 a month); £32,380 with no funded hours (under 9 months).

  The nursery's published price on 19 October 2026: its fee page. Check with the nursery before you rely on it.

Nurseries whose fee we do not hold (8)

Their own fee page was not found, or what we read did not pass our checks, so we show nothing rather than a guess.

• Banstead Bunnies Pre School (Pre-school; Ofsted: Good, 28 March 2022): fee unknown
• Burgh Wood Montessori Nursery School (Pre-school; Ofsted: Outstanding, 15 July 2024): fee unknown
• Jack and Jill Preschool (Pre-school; Ofsted: Good, 26 June 2023): fee unknown
• Little Haven Nursery School (Pre-school; Ofsted: Good, 10 December 2024): fee unknown
• The Horseshoe Community Pre-School (Pre-school; Ofsted: Report card: expected standard or better in every area, 25 February 2026): fee unknown
• The Little Orchard Pre School (Pre-school; Ofsted: Report card: expected standard or better in every area, 18 May 2026): fee unknown
• The Old Barn Day Nursery (Day nursery; Ofsted: Not inspected yet): fee unknown
• The Old Barn Pre-Prep (Day nursery; Ofsted: Not inspected yet): fee unknown

For comparison, a paid hour at a typical nursery in the London Outer region costs £8.57 for a child under 2 and £8.63 for a 2-year-old. That is a survey average, not any nursery's own price.

Source: Coram Family and Childcare, Childcare Survey 2026: average nursery price for 50 hours a week after the working-parent entitlement (paying for 20 hours), by region.

More in nurseries in Banstead, ranked by what Ofsted found, and private school fees.

Nurseries: Ofsted, Childcare providers and inspections. Fees: each nursery's own website, read by kinplace's fee reader; a fee is left out when the page is shared with other nurseries (unless it is a chain's own price list, checked again for each branch), on another website, for an earlier year, or read more than 120 days ago.