To not pay this invoice from nursery?

I’ve changed jobs this year so I wouldn’t be able to access the work calendar anymore 🤷🏽‍♀️ The personal calendar on my phone is for birthdays/social events so assuming the reason for extra days at nursery was work related, I wouldn’t be able to validate this!

This, perfectly put.

I dont put absolutely anything in my phone calendar. It's there and I use it to check a day on the day if I need to.

I think you're describing our children's nursery when they used to attend. I had to check every invoice and seemed to find mistakes more often than not! Their system was so antiquated...

I would message them saying you have no record of your daughter being in nursery ton those dates, so they must be mistaken.

I figured out from your OP it was the first invoice but i suspect others haven't and that's likely partly why the vote has gone that way.

It's far too late to invoice someone for something like this two years later, they just need to let it go in this situation.So IMO YANBU but I seem to be a lone voice here haha

Well they have six years to chase you. How did you book adhoc days? Surely you’d have an email or something?

I think some people can't wait to stick the boot into the OP, either that or they're utterly daft and let people take advantage of them in real life.

Right that would be a hard no from me based on that alone. If it's anything that would require me to spend more than say half an hour to trawl through records - it's too much time and effort.

They need to just accept their loss and do better with invoicing next time.

when I was a student midwife I got a childcare grant. I used a few days when son was in reception and on half term. Paid using the grant.

I got an invoice a few months back for these days because the company had forgot to put the payment through the grant and it was closed! Well yes, it was 4 years ago! I told them I wasn’t paying and they accepted that. It does make you wonder who is doing the accounts doesn’t it…

Hell no. They'll just email you again in 10 years time demanding payment for another random day that she was in 15 years ago. Fuck that. This should be a lesson to them to hire better-trained staff.

I would just pass it back to them, tell you paid and get them to prove you haven't.
That way they do all the work.

Bright horizons? They supplied no/ or dramatically reduced service during Covid, refused to take card payment for one extra day due to the risks of transmission of Covid. I assumed it had been forgotten about, and I had offered payment once, given the numerous hours and days dc2 lost due to covid. They passed the debt that I had forgotten about to a debt collection agency 2 years later. Wasted hours trawling through photos calendars etc
In the end I disputed what I had evidence for, paid what I owed/ no proof that I didn’t.

They have 6 years in which to invoice you BUT must have paperwork to show that they invoice is legit. Ask them to supply proof both of the days and that you didn't pay at the time.

??? I clear my phone calendar out once a week/fortnight. All entries for the previous week get deleted, as they have passed, so why would I need them. It’s a task I do when I’m ‘trapped’ somewhere like getting my hair done or waiting to pick DH up from transport. It’s a good use of time. I wouldn’t have that info if someone asked me about 2 months ago, let alone 2 years ago!

My worry is they could press ahead with some sort of action that could affect my credit score. How much is it for? I would ask for proof that your child attended the days they are chasing as a starting point.

@HoppingPavlova what’s the thought process behind clearing your calendar out like that?

This

Do you have kids? Do you keep this type of details?

Totally not the point but gob smacked by the people who have no record of what’s gone on in their life either on paper or electronically. Or able to plan ahead becuase they don’t write anything down.

the school WhatsApp messages asking what day the Christmas concert is suddenly make a lot more sense …

(I have paper diaries going back 20
years which is extreme but I’ve been scarred by having to account for every day abroad for 5 years when I was applying for residency - that kind of exercise leaves an impression…)

I think the onus is on them to provide proof that your child attended. I wouldn't pay them until I was certain that they were right. You might well find that they back down.

Back to the point - if they took you to small claims they would need to provide proof that on the balance of probabilities a) your child was there and b) you hadn’t paid. So I would just ask them to furnish you with that documentation.

No need to worry! It would only affect her credit score if it went to court and a judge ruled against her AND she didn't pay what the judge decided on (including any court costs).

Do you have Google timline on your phone? It would show if you made the journey on those days fairly quickly and easily, assuming you took your phone to drop off.

But with them being so bad at creating invoices at the time, it's going to quite a bit of work for the OP to figure out if they've already been paid for those days or not.

its 2 years ago, they were incompetent, they can absorb the cost of that.