How does your nursery calculate the 15 hours?

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We send our two kids full-time

We pay the weekly amount of 265 £ per child.

Daily rate is 60 £ and half a day is 39 £.

For 14 weeks we pay the full weekly amount of 265 pounds.

For 38 weeks we get the discount of 15 hours a week.

The nursery says that 15 hours are 1.5 days.

So they are charging us 3.5.days = 219 pounds. They are applying the daily rate here.

I made a serious mistake, I thought they would deduct the 1.5. days from the weekly amount.

That would have been:. 265 £ - 99 £ = 166 £

As a result, our overall nursery bill will be almost 400 pounds more expensive :((((

I'm feeling depressed and don't know what to do. I'm sweating hot and cold.

I feel like it isn't fair that they are applying the daily rate, but it probably is.

How does your nursery calculate the free hours?

Please be kind, I'm already feeling down.

Generally the rate paid for funded hours doesn't cover the costs for the nursery, so they will calculate them in what ever way is best for them unfortunately.

Yes that's because it's term time only
I fell in this trap before and know the shock 😢 ours used to also work to 'school times' 9am til 3pm. But would open at 7.30am til 6pm. And you couldn't split it, you HAD to do a morning session 7.30am - 12.30pm or an afternoon 1pm - 6pm so either way I ended up paying something because it was always over school times.
My colleague has said her nursery has split 15 hours by 3 hours x 5 a week so that's all free. I guess it really depends on the nursery, unfortunately.

Presumably £265 is discounted from £300 for full time payers.

You aren't paying that any more so aren't eligible for the discount. Sounds right to me.

When we had 30 funded hours, we had it applied term time only (you had a choice). So during term, it was 30 free hours and we paid per hour (£5) for the other 10 hours used. So £50 a week, £200 per month (roughly, obviously a month isn’t exactly 4 weeks). During non-term time, we paid a daily rate (whatever that was per day, can’t remember now) for 5 days per week.