Childcare costs in Oakham
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 (13)
- Belton Pre-school (Pre-school; Ofsted: Good, 14 September 2023): fee unknown
- Bright Sparks Playgroup at Empingham (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 30 April 2024): fee unknown
- Elite Sport Academy Wrap Around (Day nursery; Ofsted: Not inspected yet): fee unknown
- Langham Nursery (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 7 January 2022): fee unknown
- Little Angels Uppingham LTD (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 28 August 2024): fee unknown
- Little Legs Cottesmore (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 14 June 2021): fee unknown
- Rainbow Childcare Centres (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 4 September 2025): fee unknown
- Scallywags Day Nursery (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 9 September 2021): fee unknown
- Stepping Stones Uppingham (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 25 May 2023): fee unknown
- The Ark Association Ltd (1) (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 28 July 2023): fee unknown
- The Ark Association Ltd (2) (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 22 January 2025): fee unknown
- The Day Nursery At Oakham (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 28 February 2022): fee unknown
- Wing Wildlings Nursery (Pre-school; Ofsted: Good, 4 November 2024): fee unknown
For comparison, a paid hour at a typical nursery in the West Midlands region costs £7.09 for a child under 2 and £6.88 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 Oakham, 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.