Would you be annoyed if the nursery closed early due to snow?
It's located in a rural area where the public transport is absolutely rubbish, and nearly all of the staff have to drive in. The main roads are fine but the side roads are icy. Staff (especially those living 10 - 15 miles away) are worried about getting home safely. There are a couple members of staff who live locally, but not enough to hold the fort with regards to ratios if those who live furthest away go home early. The nursery itself is on the grounds of a school (although with no affiliation to it) which is opened for reduce hours today.
However, the MET office website has the area the nursery is in on a yellow warning, which just means to be more aware of delays. It's only when it escalates to an amber does it mean that there's a significant increase in risk of falls and road collisions.
If your child was at the nursery, would you be annoyed if the nursery shut at 4pm (when it usually shuts at 6pm). This is still later than the school is open for but obviously would require parents to pick up earlier than expected.
And with snow closures in general, how would you like the situation best to be addressed? Would you be put out if the nursery asked if you were planning on bringing in your children the next day so they could assess the staffing and evaluate whether they could open? If the nursery knew that only x amount of children were coming in, so they only needed y amount of staff, it'd be more likely to manage to open, rather than assuming that all the children were coming in and having to shut because of possibly going over ratios.
Have to make some difficult decisions, and thought that asking parents might be a valuable way of hearing perspectives that might have been missed otherwise!