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Paid childcare

Discuss everything related to paid childcare here, including childminders, nannies, nurseries and au pairs.

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nursery that wont take babies part-time?

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Booyhoo · 02/02/2010 19:34

i live right accross the road from two nurseries and although i am pretty certain i am going to use a childmonder i thought i might aswell see if the nurseries could have met my needs because they are so close to me. one of them couldnt collect ds1 from school but the other one said they could have ds1 3 days a week but would only take ds2 (8months) full time because they find that babies dont settle well unless they are there full time. obviously i decided against this but is that normal practice for nurseries?

ds1 was in 2 different nurseries part-time from the age of 5 months and it is the first i have ever heard this.

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nannynick · 02/02/2010 19:38

Don't know if its normal but financially if they can fill all baby spaces with full-timers I can see that would be attractive to them.

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Booyhoo · 02/02/2010 19:41

tbh, i think it is more of a space filling thing. the girl that was explaining it to me mentioned that they find it hard to fill spaces when they take part-time. i would have preferred her to be honest and say that was the reason rather than make out i was doing wrong by my baby by not sending him full time.

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lollipopmother · 02/02/2010 21:28

Do you mean you wanted your LO to go for only part of the day, or were you wanting them there all day but for only a couple of days a week?

My neighbour has just started sending her DD who is 9 m/o three full days a week ...

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Booyhoo · 03/02/2010 15:03

it would be for 3 full days a week. mon/wed/fri. the excuse just didnt wash with me. if it is a filling spaces thing then they should be honest and say that.

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SE13Mummy · 03/02/2010 22:23

Perhaps there are two things at play here: 1) p/t places may well be hard to fill if they are not consecutive days which is why the M/W/F option would be tricky
2) the nursery may have found that babies who don't attend on consecutive days find it hard to settle

Either way they should have expressed the reason more clearly!

My DD went to a wonderful nursery M-W from when she was 9 months until she was 3 years and 9 months. Initially we had to pay for a f/t place until they could fill the other two days but we knew a long time in advance that that may be the case and so could budget for it. My DD's keyworker told me that they prefer to have children on consecutive days, especially the younger ones as they'd had one or two attending on M,T and F only to find they spent most of the Friday absolutely besides themselves and unable to grasp why they were back at nursery after a couple of days at home.

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