Childcare costs in Epping
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SourceNurseries: 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.
Published prices run from £7.88 to £8.84 an hour (the middle is £8.36); a full day at a day nursery from £78.75 to £91.40.
Read from the nurseries' own fee pages, most recently on 8 October 2026.
Work out the cost for your child's age and days
Funded hours, by age
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SourceNational rules for England from September 2025: gov.uk (working parents, 2 years, 3 and 4 years).
- Nurseries may charge for meals, nappies and activities on funded hours; those charges are not in the figures here.
| 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.
Nurseries with a published fee (2)
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How it is worked out"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.
- A fee is the nursery's published price on the date it was read.
Scribbles Day Nursery
£78.75 a day · £7.88 an hour (its day rate over a 10-hour day)
A year full time: £11,110 after 30 funded hours (£926 a month); £20,090 with no funded hours (under 9 months).
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SourceThe nursery's published price on 8 October 2026: its fee page.
Things to know- Check with the nursery before you rely on it.
Bright Horizons Epping Day Nursery and Preschool
£91.40 a day (day rates listed: £91.40 to £101.56) · £8.84 an hour (its published hourly rate)
A year full time: £12,460 after 30 funded hours (£1,038 a month); £22,540 with no funded hours (under 9 months).
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SourceThe nursery's published price on 8 October 2026: its fee page.
How it is worked outThe day rate is worked out from a monthly price for full time.
Things to know- Check with the nursery before you rely on it.
Nurseries whose fee we do not hold (7)
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- Their own fee page was not found, or what we read did not pass our checks, so we show nothing rather than a guess.
- Chrysalis at the Church (Day nursery; Ofsted: Not inspected yet): fee unknown
- Ellies nursery (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 30 September 2025): fee unknown
- Epping Montessori Nursery Ltd (Pre-school; Ofsted: Good, 10 March 2025): fee unknown
- Fledglings Pre School (Pre-school; Ofsted: Good, 15 May 2025): fee unknown
- Little Sunbeams (Pre-school; Ofsted: Good, 5 November 2021): fee unknown
- North Weald Village Pre-School Ltd (Pre-school; Ofsted: Good, 9 November 2022): fee unknown
- The Red School (Pre-school; Ofsted: Outstanding, 1 July 2024): fee unknown
For comparison
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SourceCoram 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.
- A survey average, not any nursery's own price.
A paid hour at a typical nursery in the South East region costs £8.06 for a child under 2 and £7.58 for a 2-year-old. That is a survey average, not any nursery's own price.
More in nurseries in Epping, ranked by what Ofsted found, and private school fees.
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