Childcare costs in Pontefract
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 (19)
- Badsworth Nursery (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 12 January 2024): fee unknown
- Butterflys Day Nursery (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 29 April 2022): fee unknown
- Cherry Blossom Pre-School (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 23 October 2023): fee unknown
- Happy Days Childrens Centre (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 1 March 2022): fee unknown
- Holly Tree Nursery (Day nursery; Ofsted: Not inspected yet): fee unknown
- Little Explorers (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 3 February 2023): fee unknown
- Little Gruffalos (Hemsworth) (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 3 August 2022): fee unknown
- Little Rainbow Nursery (Pre-school; Ofsted: Good, 10 December 2024): fee unknown
- Oakhill Day Nursery (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 18 December 2023): fee unknown
- Pomfret Woodland Community Nursery (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 2 May 2023): fee unknown
- Safe 'n' Sound Nursery (Day nursery; Ofsted: Outstanding, 30 November 2023): fee unknown
- St Luke's Pre-School Nursery (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 12 June 2024): fee unknown
- Stepping Stones Day Nursery (Day nursery; Ofsted: Outstanding, 12 December 2022): fee unknown
- Sunshine Kids (Day nursery; Ofsted: Outstanding, 15 March 2022): fee unknown
- The Grange Nursery (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 15 August 2024): fee unknown
- The Meadow Pre-School (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 21 July 2025): fee unknown
- The Woodland Pre-School (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 13 August 2025): fee unknown
- Upton Daycare (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 13 February 2025): fee unknown
- Westfield Centre Children's Day Care (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 22 April 2024): fee unknown
For comparison, a paid hour at a typical nursery in the North West region costs £6.78 for a child under 2 and £6.17 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 Pontefract, 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.