My son will soon be eligible for the government funding for 3-4-year-olds and the nursery he goes to takes part in the scheme. When I look at their fees I've discovered that even though they say he will receive the "free" hours (12 in any week as he is in the nursery only for two days), they inflate his hourly rates from £5.8 (paid by non-funded children) to £7.50 for any other hour above that so in fact we end up feeling they top-up his "free" hours by doing that. They claim that they do not operate on hourly basis but I calculate that if their daily fee is £58 for 10 hours of childcare then it comes to £5.8/hour but they don't accept this and say I can't calculate it this way. They say they only charge monthly and that the fee reflects the needs of the business. And in fact they can't tell me why I am charged more than I should as "businesses do not need to tell why they operate in the way they operate". Is this a common practice? Do I stand any chance challenging that or is there a loophole allowing them to do so?
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Inflated fees for a child receiving 15 hours of "free" entitlement
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moniuhna · 26/01/2016 15:12
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