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The cost of baby's first year = Â£1,000. Surveys suggest you'll spend over Â£9,000 on a child's first 12 months. Nonsense, says Hilary Osborne, you can do it for much less. Baby Wyn â the cost was in 'hundreds rather than thousands' says his mum.
But it is the first year of a child's life that is the most expensive, costing Â£8,500 on average. As children reach school age and less money needs to go towards childcare, the annual cost of raising a child falls to a low of around Â£6,489 for a child aged between five and eight years.