What woud you think if your nursery asked you to pay a small voluntary fee to subside another child's place?

[milliec]

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Of course, while you want to do all the best to help and of course you'd not want any child, even your own, to have to go through this, it is not up to the other parents to fund the nursery this way surely.

In this case, as one parent has now become the carer for the other, surely they'd get some assistance from the government for nursery care.

I don't know what else to say.

I can't see the problem, actually. I would pay, assuming the fund were properly administered.

the childcare element of the working tax credit means I already subsidize (through taxes) other kids nursery fees while paying all of my own myself. (With two kids, that'll be 75% of my take home salary - it's a significant financial hit).

And while I admire some of the parents who are struggling to work with low incomes (offer lifts in my car since they don't have one), there's other parents that I know are getting CTC who drop their kids off and then call in sick and don't go into work because they're tired/bored/busy. So no, I would not chip in to a extra fund.

(Of course, specific family circumstances presented to me might make me feel differently, but that would be on a case-by-case basis and I would not subscribe to the idea in general).

I would think "bugger off".

I would have no problems assisting a particular family whose circumstances I was aware of on a voluntary basis. However, I would have a real problem with providing general and compulsory assistance to people who the nursery deemed were deserving.

wouldn't contribute as we spend no more than we have & it would annoy me that I was paying for someone who might be in financial trouble due to their own fault.