COVID-19 nursery closure and refund

[justthisreally]

I have 3DCs in a private nursery. A staff told me today that they are getting themselves ready for the closure in the event of government directive. I asked if parents will be asked to pay for the period of closure. She said that all depends on what their head office decides when the time comes.

I'm self employed. And if I need to look after my DCs, I worry that I will have no income but have this huge nursery cost?

AIBU to expect my private nursery to not charge (including refund for the fees paid in advance) in case of closure?

We challenged it but are we really going I take legal action & take them to court at this time? It’s a shame they couldn’t see that our situation is pretty tough (our business supplies the hospitality industry) & we are already loosing money. So the future of our child is priority, the child they got to know in their nursery but they just want their money tough luck to us!

I totally agree that nurseries have staff to pay (doesn’t every company) if your company closes your not going to get paid. Unfortunately for the nursery it shouldn’t be the parent’s responsibility to make up the short fall of staffs wage (even though the parent may have no income). Nurseries surely must make a large profit when kids are sick they STILL get FULL fees, when parents take the kids on holidays not to mention the budget food that most of them give the kids. It’s a vicious circle if the nursery was to sick well GOV would have to bail them out.

That is how businesses works though for anybody. If you owned a clothes store and it closes down are you going to pay staff out of your own pocket?. Besides nurseries must make a good profit from the staff that are paid very low wages, what about when parents still pay and the child doesn’t attend as the child maybe poorly or on holiday. Parents still pay.... where does that money go? Total that up that should pay staffs wages in crisis like this. A lot of people’s jobs are at risk and if you were to loose it the government wouldn’t expect you to pay your rent. So what makes nurseries different to any other business....