Nursery Fees

[Dubai]

We send our little boy nursery 2 days a week as obviously good for social development and interaction with other children works out around £600 a month based on £70 a day- Mondays and Fridays.

Now obviously this month there are 2 bank holidays which happen to fall on Mondays and Fridays - the nursery have charged us the same amount but are shut on these days. Now my partner actually is a stock loan trader by profession so she obviously has these days off but if she worked in other industries then we might need them to be open

My issue is how can they charge us for use of their service when they are closed on these 2 days?

Haven't looked at contract as basically irrelevant as done contract law and most ain't worth the paper they're written on- if an unfair term is in the contract then it's gonna be void anyway even if you signed it.

Seems mad that a company can bill its "clients for work and services" when it's not even open?

[mulhuzz]

think you would at least be entitled to send him on any other two days this month.

I imagine contract specifies number of days at a day rate rather than number of mondays and fridays.

think if you just ring them and contest it they would just offer another couple of days.

[tikay]

Dubai starts a thread about Nursery Fees.

The world has turned upside down.

[Dubai]

I assumed that would be their form of a compromise if did ring up

The other thing that amazes me that everyone seems to accept is standard-is you have to pay even if you want to take kids abroad- can't give notice, don't have a holiday allowance, they just charge you.

So if you did send a child every day- and wanted to go on a 2 week holiday. You would pay the nursery £700 for the privilege of it, if you had 2 kids even with second child discount still means a holiday costs £1300 or so more on top of the cost.

No wonder most mums don't see it as economically viable to go back to work

Hopefully Pleno reads this and starts working on buying a chain of nurserys we can all buy a piece in

[Eso Kral]

I assumed that would be their form of a compromise if did ring up

The other thing that amazes me that everyone seems to accept is standard-is you have to pay even if you want to take kids abroad- can't give notice, don't have a holiday allowance, they just charge you.

So if you did send a child every day- and wanted to go on a 2 week holiday. You would pay the nursery £700 for the privilege of it, if you had 2 kids even with second child discount still means a holiday costs £1300 or so more on top of the cost.

No wonder most mums don't see it as economically viable to go back to work

Hopefully Pleno reads this and starts working on buying a chain of nurserys we can all buy a piece in

But would he make the puzzles easier to enable the kids to be able to get out at the end of the day?

[Simon Galloway]

I miagine the "contract" is based on the year, so is div12 for a monthly fee, rather than for actual days used.  So with 2 bank holidays, you are paying for services you don't receive, but other months you must be getting a service you aren't paying for?

The nursery has a limit to the number of places they can offer, based on carers/facilities etc and therefore each child space is a cost to them, whether the child comes in or not.  It would be a bit like buying a dedicated car parking space in a car park and happen not to use it for 2 weeks.

[celtic]

I miagine the "contract" is based on the year, so is div12 for a monthly fee, rather than for actual days used.  So with 2 bank holidays, you are paying for services you don't receive, but other months you must be getting a service you aren't paying for?

The nursery has a limit to the number of places they can offer, based on carers/facilities etc and therefore each child space is a cost to them, whether the child comes in or not.  It would be a bit like buying a dedicated car parking space in a car park and happen not to use it for 2 weeks.

The car park analogy only works if they shut the car park. The nursery shouldn't be charging for days they are closed IMO.

[Dubai]

I miagine the "contract" is based on the year, so is div12 for a monthly fee, rather than for actual days used.  So with 2 bank holidays, you are paying for services you don't receive, but other months you must be getting a service you aren't paying for?

The nursery has a limit to the number of places they can offer, based on carers/facilities etc and therefore each child space is a cost to them, whether the child comes in or not.  It would be a bit like buying a dedicated car parking space in a car park and happen not to use it for 2 weeks.

It's defo based per day and not over year as always is exact amount for number of days that month. I

[Dubai]

Because you aren't even contracted in for a year, can pull out whenever u want but they don't guarantee a space again if you do pull out. So if you were going away for a month obv say to nursery pulling out next month but then gambling whether get back in

[pleno1]

what about hiring a building just on holidays (im sure its cheaper than normal) and charge 200%?

[tikay]

what about hiring a building just on holidays (im sure its cheaper than normal) and charge 200%?

There are serious regulatory issues involved in running a nursery, Patrick.

[Marky147]

BITB getting into the nursery racket business.


My brother was saying the same about their nursery back along, and I think they just ended up swallowing it.

[pleno1]

no, no ofc, all above board, hire  non religious very good staff

[titaniumbean]

no, no ofc, all above board, hire  non religious very good staff

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bitb

[Doobs]

Monday/Friday but worst days to send kids to nursery.  My youngest Monday/Thursday as value of day after Sunday>>value lost in bank holidays.