Nursery drop off times

[Km293]

My daughter has been attending nursery for the last 18 months. Her hours are 7.30 to 17.30 three days a week. I have always dropped her off from 7.25 onwards so that I can hand over to the staff & get her settled before I leave at 7.30. She is normally collected by 16.30.

I have been informed that she is now not allowed into the premises until after 7.30. Am I wrong to think this is yet another way for nursery to take less responsibility as they are responsible from 7.30 not 7.35 when I leave?

They do have things to do before you get there you know and staff all have to be in place. Why should they give you 5 mins free? They also still have to keep their ratio until the time children are booked to leave its not like you going half an hour early means the staff can leave they need to be paid for booked hours and will then be doing other things before they get home.
Stop hanging around it unsettles all the children not just yours and delays staff in supporting them because they have to be watching you.

No, you're a cheeky and entitled wagon.

Why should they have her on the premises before her official hours? No pay, no stay. And tbh, if it's before official start time they have other things to be doing - it's their time, not time you're paying for.

YABVU. I work in the school that DS goes to and he used to go to nursery on the same site. My lovely nursery colleagues always got there at least half an hour before work (as I did) to get set up for the day. However I never EVER dropped him off at breakfast club with those teachers until after 8am when School officially opens. They’ve got so much to do (as I have i every day!) he’s my responsibility until official drop off. If the Start time is 7.30am, that’s when the doors open, that’s when you drop off.

Our nursery isn’t insured for the children to be on premises before 7:30 and won’t open the door if you arrive early.

Tbh its really annoying when parents arrive early regularly. I had one like that it added up to a lot of time they got free care and used up my personal time before i was due to start work. All those 5-10 minutes add up over time and its my time i am losing while they gain some free time before work.
Nursery staff are setting up, discussing the days routine etc they really dont want parents there early. What if every parent did this?

The nursery might not be insured for her to arrive 5 minutes early. Also, the nursery staff are still working if they are chatting to you at the door regardless of whether they are 'responsible' for your child or not. I'm sure they'd rather be on their break or preparing for the day than welcoming a child in 5 minutes before they start work.
This really gets on my nerves. I'm a childminder so slightly different but my setting opens at 7:30am. That is already me being flexible, as only one child arrives at the time so it doesn't even make financial sense for me. Parent's have arrived up until 25 minutes early and then scoffed when I charge them for the 25 mins. Even ten minutes can throw my day off if that is the ten minutes that I set up an activity, or usually do my make up before I start work. It isn't fair. You agree on a time, you pay for a time, get there on time.

Why does it take you 5 mins to drop her off? Just drop her quickly at 7.30.

Goldenbug you made me literally lol

I can understand being early as I’m always early for everything. At that time on a morning it’s impossible to judge the traffic to arrive bang on a specific time (unless you’re very local) so I always leave extra time for any journey at busy times.

I would usually wait in the car but having said that if it opened at half 7 and others were taking their children in 5 minutes early it wouldn’t occur to me that it might be a problem to do the same - it’s up to them to keep the door locked until opening time if they don’t want people coming in before.

Have to agree with everyone. You are wrong. You are paying from 7.30, which is the time she can go in from.
IME few Nurseries are open earlier than that. Staff aren't being paid before their shift starts.

The 5 mins of handover should be in paid time . Although no real idea what needs handing over for 5 mins . As a childminder I can say quick handovers work far better anyway .

when I worked in nursery we didn’t open the doors until 8. we were not legally allowed to have any children in the building until 8. Also if you want to drop her off early then you need to pay!!

I used to work in a nursery that opened at 8. If i was on early shift i had to get there for 7:45 to set up the room, do a h&s check and prepare breakfast. I would arrive at 7:45 and the same parenrs would be there asking me to be let in. We always refused of course, for insurance reasons. Then they were ringing the doorbell from 7:50, 7:55. So annoying!
I dont know why it takes 5 min to do a handover.. Imagine if all parents did that. We had parents who always wanted to chat while i was obviously busy doing breakfast etc.
The nursery nurse needs to mind the children who are already there in her charge but for some reason some parents think it is 1 on 1 care.
Yes, you are being very unreasonable

What Goldenbug said!

I'm really shocked they even let you in at 7.25. They've been very accommodating up to now I think. Our nursery opens at 8 and you can't get in before then. And quite rightly too!

If you drop off 5 minutes early every day, presuming your child goes full time, you're getting nearly an hour free childcare a fortnight, so nearly 26 hours over a course of a year!