Childcare costs in Carshalton
We hold no published fee we can stand behind for any nursery here yet.
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 whose fee we do not hold (18)
- Bright Horizons Carshalton Day Nursery And Preschool (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 19 December 2022): fee unknown
- Busy Bees Day Nursery at Carshalton (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 4 July 2025): fee unknown
- Cosy Cottage Daycare Ltd (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 28 May 2025): fee unknown
- Elmwood Nursery (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 19 July 2023): fee unknown
- Fledglings at Riverside (Pre-school; Ofsted: Not inspected yet): fee unknown
- Gifted Hands Nursery & Pre-school (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 7 May 2024): fee unknown
- Jancett Childcare, Park Lane, Carshalton (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 17 August 2023): fee unknown
- Lavender Preschool At Tweeddale (Pre-school; Ofsted: Outstanding, 27 June 2024): fee unknown
- Oak Tree Pre-School Nursery (Pre-school; Ofsted: Outstanding, 21 September 2023): fee unknown
- Play B C Preschool (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 13 October 2023): fee unknown
- Rainbows Montessori Pre-School (Pre-school; Ofsted: Good, 30 September 2021): fee unknown
- Ruskin Road Pre-School (Pre-school; Ofsted: Good, 30 January 2023): fee unknown
- Special First Steps (Day nursery; Ofsted: Not inspected yet): fee unknown
- The Carshalton Day Nursery and Pre-School (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 18 October 2024): fee unknown
- Tilly's Preschool Limited (SM5 4LJ) (Pre-school; Ofsted: Good, 24 September 2025): fee unknown
- Tilly's Preschool Limited (SM5 1SL) (Pre-school; Ofsted: Good, 29 September 2022): fee unknown
- Tilly's Preschool Limited (SM5 2TG) (Pre-school; Ofsted: Good, 29 April 2022): fee unknown
- Woodlands Day Nursery (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 24 June 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 Carshalton, 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.