Should I pay more for a bank holiday in school holidays than in termtime?

[Trixibell79]

I’d be grateful if there are any child minders who might comment on this. We have one child who is preschool and two who are school-age. We pay our childminder more during the school holidays for the school age kids even if we are on holidayand not using her as theoretically she saves a place for the two school-aged children so we end up paying her the number of hours they would be at school.
This year for the August bank holiday she has charged us as though the children would be attending from 8:30 till 3 i.e school hours.
The problem is she does not work bank holidays ever! Is it fair that I am paying this number of hours on a bank holiday or should we just pay paying our usual shorter hours or a standard charge.
Does anyone have any experience of this? I’m hoping to settle the bill later on tonight I don’t know whether to raise it with her - eek

I’d check your terms and conditions.

Nursery’s charge for BH if you usually attend on the day it falls, although they are closed.

I’m sure she will have covered it in the contract?

We pay bank holidays at standard rates because we signed a contract saying we would. If we didn’t pay our CM for holiday and bank holidays her hourly rate would go up to compensate. It’s just simple business.

Unfortunately this completely depends on the contract. The old nursery I used charged for bank holidays even though they shut. It was in the contract