I am really annoyed at how this nursery education grant is worked out. We were told our sons get 5 free places. Now they are telling us the grant has run out and we have to pay in full. We have signed a contract you can't just back out if you can't afford it. I am not working, my husband works. I thought I could work a couple of days a week by taking advantage of this NEG. Now we have to pay £549 a month which we cannot afford. If we were on benefits and we wanted to give our kids a bit of free early years education, I dread to think what would happen.
We shouldn't have to work out how much to pay extra. They should tell us before we've signed the contract and make it simple. I've got enough to do looking after 2 kids (one of them is very ill) without working out blasted sums and worrying how much we will have to pay this month.
They made us think it was free and then we signed a contract and found out we'd have to pay the full amount. If they had told us how much we would have to pay from the start there wouldn't be a problem.