about nursery fees?

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My DD almost 3 has been attending nursery since Oct 2014, 3 days per week at a daily rate of £60 per day.

I have now returned to work full time (Relationship breakdown, can no longer afford to work part-time), When I asked her key worker if she thought it would be possible for her to attend 5 days and she said checked with manager who agreed it was. She told me to write to the office to confirm. I didn't do this until I returned to work full time (stupidly). They have now wrote back to say that as I am changing her hours, I will need to sign a new contract at a different daily rate. This will make it approximately £200 more per month. I cannot afford this. It is already over the threshold that tax credit take into account.

WIBU to expect it to be at the same daily rate?

Can she stay there 3 days a week and go elsewhere for the other two?

Laguna-extra days get charged less! The more hours you do at ours, the lower the rate. If your child only does one day, you'd pay more for that one day than a fifth of what a full time goer would.

It sounds as though there's been a change in the way they charge their fees since you signed the original contract.

Now that you want to change your hours, they're moving you to their current standard contract, not the old obsolete one.

That's actually standard business practice. I used to work in the IT tariffs and packages area of a business and, although they had to honour contracts already signed, the slightest change would move those customers onto the new packages.

The way to look at it is not that you're being charged more for changing your hours, but that you have saved on your fees since the new contract was introduced.

Nursery where I live is the same price per day. Some places give a discount on a Monday or Friday because these are the less busy days.

How annoying. Unfortunately, it is a business transaction and they are within their rights to charge as deem appropriate. It always smarts to hear that about childcare, but that's that. If you don't like it, choose another service provider.

Child Tax credit will pay up to 70% of Nursery fees dependent on your earnings not what the nursery charges. Hth

That's not quite accurate. They pay up to 70%, but there is a maximum they will pay (I think it's around £125 a week for one child). So if the nursery already charges more than that then the OP will get no more help for higher fees.