I'm wondering how others have coped with this issue and also whether anyone has a handle on the legality:
We applied for a nursery place Mon-Thurs and had those days RESERVED to start in June.
My wife has decided to delay going back to work so naturally asked the nursery to push the start date back to August.
Her work and grandparent childcare for a day situation has also changed and we now only need Mon, Tues and Thurs. So want to drop Wednesday.
Nursery want us to pay from June regardless and drop Thursday / Monday not Wednesday.
Is this standard practice that others have found?
Has anyone successfully argued against it and what strategy did they use?
Under trading standards and other legislation can a nursery dictate what days you can and can't drop?
I feel like I'm the customer...so if I don't want Wednesday anymore then at the maximum I should be able to give a month's notice and drop Wednesday. Not be told it has to be Thursday or Monday.
As an aside their argument is the same if I wanted to drop my older child who attends down a day. They would have the say over which day, and indeed whether I could / he gets removed altogether.
I get they have other people on waiting lists but my business is with them not other people.
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workingdad1980 · 04/05/2016 14:39
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