My daughter turned 3 last December. We started receiving funding in January. As she goes throughout the full year, it works out at 11h per week (equivalent 15h term-time only). At the lowest rate, their fees for a full day 8am-6pm are ÂŁ39 (for those going full time); at the higher rate, the same hours are ÂŁ50.50 (for regular bookings of two days a week or less). This means that the hour ranges from ÂŁ3.9 to ÂŁ5.05, depending on the hours your child do. My child does three days a week, so her hour is ÂŁ4.5
Am I wrong to assume that, as a minimum, they should pay ÂŁ3.9 per hour towards funding? As I get 11 hours funded, I am assuming I should get ÂŁ46.8 per week (11 x ÂŁ3.9) as a minimum, even though I pay more per hour because my daughter goes three days a week now. They are paying me ÂŁ41 per week, instead. They say that they get less than ÂŁ3.9 an hour from the Local Authority, so they are not funding what I pay, but passing on the money that the LA gives to them. Is this right? I thought that it is a sacrifice that they do if they want to advertise free funding places, nobody obliges them to do so. They have also increased the fees in April, with no increase whatsoever to the allocated funding. Is this reasonable?
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Jedimum1 · 23/07/2016 09:23
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