to think nursery can't do this?

[katechristie]

DS is 3.5yo and due to start school (nursery class) in sept. He's been going to the same nursery 3 days pw since he was 12mo. Before I started on mat leave after having DD last April I asked nursery to confirm that from Sept 2010, they would do a pick-up from DS's school at 11.30am, and take him back to nursery for the remainder of the day as they do with a number of local schools. They've been reassuring me that they would do this, and on that basis I kept DS there one session a week whilst I was off, then restarted his 3 days and started DD there in April when I returned to work.

Today when I picked the DCs up, the nursery manager told me that the owner had decided they won't pick DS up after school and return him to this nursery and that DD and DS will have to swap to their other nursery instead as they have some children going to the same school there.

DS is nervous enough about starting school, saying he doesn't want to go and has taken forever to settle into nursery and I'm really upset about this as if they'd told me last year they wouldn't do the pick-up, I would simply have taken him out whilst I was off and restarted the two of them in a different nursery this April, which would do a pick-up from our primary school. DD has only been going to the nursery 4 months and has settled in well and I really don't want to have to uproot them both. - Certainly if they won't do it then I feel I have no choice but to find another nursery altogether, but I only have 5 weeks until school starts!!!

AIBU to be really cross about this??? (They currently go to nursery a couple of streets away from where I work, the other nursery is 5miles in the opposite direction to where I work).

I think they can, maybe DS is the only one who needs wrap around care from that pre-school so it is just not economically viable for them to offer the service. really really annoying for you but other than express your annoyance i am not sure there is really anything else you can do, they don't have to offer a wrap around service.

You can be cross but they dont have to do it.

but the thing was they told us they would do it, now they're going back on their word. I know they don't have to do it, but they could have told us last year they weren't going to do it. - I asked again this April before starting DD there and they've reassured me then and since then that they would do it. today it's come as a bit of a shock, as how on earth am I supposed to move them to another nursery with hardly any notice?

I understand your frustration but if it was never put into writing then you don't have a leg to stand on. Sorry. I can imagine the stress it must be causing.

Could DS just stay at the same nursery ? I have decided to leave DD 3.5years at the same day nursery rather than split her between two places. I use her funding towards the day nursery fees and they all have to follow the same curiculum. Like your DS she has taken a long time to settle in but now seems to be happy there so it would seem a pitty to upset things.