The Family and Childcare Trust's 2018 survey of councils has revealed that the average price of a 25-hours-a-week place for a child under the age of two has increased by seven per cent to £122 a week since 2017.
This is more than double the current consumer price index's annual rate of inflation of three per cent.
Since 2017 the cost of 25-hours-a-week provision for a child aged two has increased by six per cent to £119, the survey also found.
Working parents of children aged three and four are entitled to 30 hours of free childcare a week. But the survey of local provision found just half of councils are reporting they have enough 30 hours childcare places.
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