Childcare costs in Barnet
Published prices run from £7.00 to £10.50 an hour (the middle is £9.50); a full day at a day nursery from £70.00 to £98.00.
Read from the nurseries' own fee pages, most recently on 19 October 2026.
Work out the cost for your child's age and days
Funded hours, by age
| Age | Funded hours | Who |
|---|---|---|
| Under 9 months | None | Every family pays the full fee. |
| 9 months to 2 years | Up to 30 hours a week, 38 weeks a year | Working parents (gov.uk) |
| 2 years | Up to 30 hours a week if you work; 15 hours if you get certain support | Working parents, or families on some benefits (gov.uk) |
| 3 and 4 years, until Reception | 15 hours a week for every child; up to 30 for working parents | Everyone (gov.uk) |
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 (5)
"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 Little Stars Nursery
£70.00 a day · £7.00 an hour (its day rate over a 10-hour day)
A year full time: £9,870 after 30 funded hours (£822 a month); £17,850 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.
Bright Horizons East Barnet Day Nursery and Preschool
£91.06 a day (day rates listed: £91.06 to £101.18) · £9.20 an hour (its published hourly rate)
The day rate is worked out from a monthly price for full time.
A year full time: £12,970 after 30 funded hours (£1,081 a month); £23,460 with no funded hours (under 9 months).
The nursery's published price on 13 October 2026: its fee page. Check with the nursery before you rely on it.
Highview Montessori Day Nursery
£95.00 a day (day rates listed: £90.00 to £95.00) · £9.50 an hour (its day rate over a 10-hour day)
A year full time: £13,400 after 30 funded hours (£1,117 a month); £24,220 with no funded hours (under 9 months).
The nursery's published price on 13 October 2026: its fee page. Check with the nursery before you rely on it.
Stay & Play Nursery
£98.00 a day (day rates listed: £86.00 to £98.00) · £9.80 an hour (its day rate over a 10-hour day)
A year full time: £13,820 after 30 funded hours (£1,152 a month); £24,990 with no funded hours (under 9 months).
The nursery's published price on 13 October 2026: its fee page. Check with the nursery before you rely on it.
Alban Preschool
£10.50 an hour (worked out from its session prices and times)
The nursery's published price on 13 October 2026: its fee page. Check with the nursery before you rely on it.
Nurseries whose fee we do not hold (11)
- Barnet Hospital Nursery (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 24 November 2022): fee unknown
- Belfield Montessori Day Nursery (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 5 July 2021): fee unknown
- Bright Learners Montessori School (Pre-school; Ofsted: Good, 13 January 2023): fee unknown
- Brookhill Baby Provision (Day nursery; Ofsted: Outstanding, 20 July 2022): fee unknown
- Foulds Pre-school Ltd (Day nursery; Ofsted: Not inspected yet): fee unknown
- Kidz Choice (Mays Lane) (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 31 August 2023): fee unknown
- N Family Club Barnet (Day nursery; Ofsted: Not inspected yet): fee unknown
- The Hyde Nursery Barnet (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 30 May 2024): fee unknown
- The New Barnet Day Nursery and Pre-School (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 21 September 2023): fee unknown
- Twinkle Stars Montessori Nursery (Pre-school; Ofsted: Good, 21 May 2024): fee unknown
- Woodlands Day Nursery Barnet (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 11 August 2025): 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 Barnet, 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.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Sources are named beside each figure. All sources.