To not want to pay playschool £5 because I have to work?

[mumfor1standmaybe2ndtime]

My employer has changed my work hours, I used to work 6am til 9am. I now have to work 7am til 11am when ds is at playschool or basically lose my job.
Now I am unable to be a parent helper at playschool and have to pay them £5 when I am on the rota. Am i being unreasonable to not want to pay it?

YABU

it is not the playschool's fault

Can you not have the extra charge covered by your employers?

Especially as you will be working an extra hour?

How is it my fault? Should I give up work?

YABU

Other people have to work too. If the agreement is that you are there or you pay a penalty, and you are not there, then you pay the penalty.

No my employer would not pay. I used to do 3 mornings a week, now I do 2 mornings with these new hours.

It's your job, and the playschool is, I am assumng, a co-operative.

If you're not there, someone else has to be there. Someone else who therefore cannot be at work.

It's not YOUR fault, but it's not THEIR fault either.

If you choose to send your child to playschool then it's the deal that you have to do rota or pay a fine, that's just how it works.

does everyone have to help then?
presumably it cuts down costs whichis why you have to pay a fiver.
a fiver a week or a one off?

If you do 2 mornings there are 3 other mornings in the week when you could do rota aren't there?

He only goes 2 mornings a week and I need to work then. I have no family to help with babysitting or helping out. My only option is to work when he is at playschool.

I assume you agreed to the Playschool's terms and conditions when you signed up? YABU.

Then you have to pay the fiver. You can't send him for free without contributing. The world does not work like that.

Their ploicy is that every parent/guardian has to take a turn to be a helper for at least twice each term.

£5 for childcare when you are working is incredibly cheap, so YABU, i'm afraid. even a CM would be £3 per hour at least. so £5 for him to be looked after is very good value.

When I signed him up to playschool I wasn't aware of the £5 rule or the fact that I had to be a helper.

Is the £5 all you would have to pay for your childcare then? Sounds pretty reasonable to me!

surely you'll earn more with the extra hour?

But my son's playschool is funded by the Government as he is 3.

Did you sign anything to the effect that you have to turn up or pay up?

Have you spoken to them about this, as they may be applying a blanket rule to prevent lazy people bogging off into town when it's their turn, and may not realise you have to work.

You'll only have to pay £10 a term then! Hardly the end of the world!!!

I won't be working an extra hour,
I work 8 hours on a Sunday and 8 hours in the week.
I used to do 7 hours on a sunday and 3 mornings in the week 6-9 - Same money!

Is it an OFSTED registered playschool then? Because I think they have to provide their own staff, as they are paid to do so.

tell us a bit more about the way the playschool runs

I think someone has already said this, but if you don't work on 3 mornings, can't you do your playgroup session then?

I think you've got off fairly lightly, but it might be worth checking whether your employer is allowed to change your hours like that if 3 mornings 6-9 is in your contract?

If you work then you should pay - what about the sahm mums who pay if they can't help (perhaps they have other kids to look after?)

£10 a term? I was assuming it was a day or a week! YABU!