Paid nursery inset days

[Zombiefluff]

So yesterday our private nursery announced 6 inset days in their calendar from 1st of September. This is a paid, private full time nursery, not linked to a school.

I currently pay about 2k for a 1 year old with 15 hours and 1k for a 3 year old with 30.
Bank holidays are obviously paid for and now 6 additional inset days out of nowhere.
AIBU it is this nuts?
If I wanted to deal with inset days and random time off I would do a school nursery!!

So exactly when are they supposed to training, deep cleans, heavy maintenance, planning, etc.?

Move them to a school nursery then

How and when do you expect the staff to do their training?

The inset days will be factored into the cost and they are giving you plenty of notice to cover them.

And just a heads up, if you are planning to remain in private education then be well prepared for much longer holidays to cover.

I don't think ours have any inset days. Just bank holidays and closed for a week over Christmas.

Well they could have announced this change before school nursery applications shut. They’ve done it later which really ties parents hand leaving them with no choices.

Well there you go @Zombiefluff find out where Onetwosix sends their kids.

I’d have been quite frustrated if this happened when my kids were at nursery and i’d probably look for somewhere else

If they have pre schoolers i am assuming they are following the curriculum so they need the inset days as standard, im not sure what you want?

What does private school have to do with childcare?

I’ve already had one child in the nursery for almost 3 years and they haven’t ever closed the nursery for inset days so I don’t think it’s following the curriculum or it wouldn’t be new.

Oh ok, have you asked them ?

People on mumsnet are obsessed with defending nurseries. You could say your nursery have announced a new policy where they now own your child and will be sending them up chimneys and most posters would make it your fault or explain that soot is good for their immune system.

No, YANBU. Absolutely ridiculous when nurseries decide to charge when they choose to be closed. My nursery doesn’t do it, no good nursery would. It’s also illegal for them to allocate “free” hours funding from the government to days when they’ve refused to open.

Everyone bleating “when are they supposed to train them”… on inset days is fine. Just don’t charge parents when you’re not open - obviously.

Some Mumsnetters tend moan about nurseries as if they are actual personal staff !

Had two kids at two different private nursery's. Never had inset days. They do close for Christmas two weeks and that's paid but I knew about it. The first nursery did have something in the contract about May needing to close for training days but over the three years it never did. If someone was on training they brought someone else in to keep rota

We use a private nursery that has 5 training days (which really impresses me) and they are clear that they don’t charge for any nursery closures which includes the training days and bank holidays. Though the cost is then averaged out over the year so you wouldn’t notice it on a monthly basis.

People are being weirdly agro 😂
I would be surprised if many people would be happy paying for an additional 6 days when the nursery is shut.
They’ve done training without charging me for over a week of closures for the past 3 years.
I was going to restructure work to work around school but I haven’t planned random new nursery closures into annual leave!

I don’t see how that is remotely reflective of this post.

It’s not - they just thought it sounded clever 😂🙄

You may still be able to do a late application if needed OP, we did as we didn’t think circumstances allowed, but have worked it out. We heard back within about 10 days and we have a space and have secured breakfast, wraparound and after school place

May be different where you are but could be worth a look

Yeah we already paid for bank holidays and 2 weeks over Christmas, which seemed fairly standard but 6 days on top of that is just so much!

Well you are the one who is making a big song and dance about it being a private nursery that you pay a lot of money for so I'm just saying a private setting doesn't mean the kids spend more time is said setting.

I agree it is annoying given you are still paying for those days… but then also have to pay for more childcare on top (or take six days random annual leave).

As in not a school nursery that operates term time with school holidays and inset days.

Private is literally how childcare nurseries are referred too, I hardly made a big song and dance by stating that it was in fact not a school nursery hence the shock at newly announced inset days which are typical in school.

“I'm just saying a private setting doesn't mean the kids spend more time is said setting.”

I don’t think you understand what you’re talking about any are getting carried away with your outrage at the notion of “private”. The only nursery a 1 year old can attend is private, where are you getting I think kids should or do spend more time in a private setting?

I didn't realise you were a preexisting customer of the nursery.

I think you need to ask the nursery for clarification as presumably you've already signed the contract based on expectations of previous years. Would be very interesting what the contract says about the inset days.

If they are charging you for the extra 6 days then that is shit. If these days have been factored into fees then there isn't much you can do do. You need to ask the question though.

You mention it 3 times in your first post!!

This is a paid, private full time nursery, not linked to a school

I currently pay about 2k for a 1 year old with 15 hours and 1k for a 3 year old with 30

If I wanted to deal with inset days and random time off I would do a school nursery!!

I get the expectation of private nursery. I was only saying that if you continue down the fee paying route in the future then you'll be dealing with this issue on a much grander scale.