About Family Sums
Family Sums is a small, independent website of calculators for parents, carers and students in the UK. It answers the practical money and date questions that come up from pregnancy to graduation, such as which school year a child is in, what nursery will cost after funded hours, or how much a student loan takes from your pay.
Many of these answers depend on which nation you live in. We build each tool to handle England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland where the rules differ, and we say clearly when a tool covers only one nation.
Who runs the site
Jamie Orme, editor
Jamie Orme is the pen name of the independent editor who runs Family Sums. Jamie writes the parent and student calculators and checks the figures for each UK nation against GOV.UK, the student finance bodies, the Welsh and Scottish governments and UCAS.
Jamie isn't a financial adviser, and nothing on Family Sums is financial advice.
Who checks the calculators
Every figure links to the official source it came from, and the date it was last checked is shown on each page. We’d like specialists to review each section too, such as a student finance adviser for the student tools, and will name them on the pages they check if they do.
How the site is paid for
The calculators are free. We plan to pay for the site with advertising. Ads will never appear between a calculator’s inputs and its result, and we will not take payment to change a result or recommend a product.
We are not the government
Family Sums has no link to GOV.UK, the Department for Education, Student Finance England, Student Finance Wales, SAAS, UCAS or any council. For decisions about your own case, use the official services we link to.