Nursery absence

[isitme93]

Hey,
Looking for some advice. My child attends nursery 4 days a week. I get some funding but overly all, our bill is around £670 a month. My DS is 2.
Last week DS had two days off poorly. This week, I have taken him out to do potty training, as he came home from nursery yesterday wanting to use potty - so whilst the wheels are in motion and I am off, I’ve taken today to commit to potty training.
Ive told nursery, and definitely got the vibe they were funny about him being off.
Is it reasonable to take them out to do this, baring in mind I am paying? And do they monitor absence in nurseries does anyone know?
(PS I put a post on here the other day, and was shocked how many rude comments I got. So if you’re going to judge a mum or be nasty, please don’t bother. Also received some lovely comments from some lovely helpful people)
thank you

The funding authorities want to make sure that people are taking up the places that they are partially funding, so they monitor attendance.

They want to avoid fraud, ranging from nurseries claiming for non-existent children, to claims for full-time places when children only attend part-time. If you claim partial funding for a place, you have to take up all the sessions or you and the nursery could risk investigation for fraud.

Obviously, if your child is ill that is different. But it's possible that they don't want you to begin to establish a pattern where your child has patchy attendance. This could flag up a funding issue as well as potentially disrupting your child's routine and making it harder for him to settle.

Or you might just have spoken to someone who was a bit off because they were in a hurry to deal with something else.

It may also be that they’ve specifically arranged staffing for a certain ratio including your child, and now your child isn’t attending they may have needed one fewer staff member. Obviously when children are ill this can’t be helped, but they might be annoyed that they now have to pay an unnecessary staff member when you could have told them in advance your child wouldn’t be attending today. I know you’re still paying so in theory that shouldn’t matter but your fees alone won’t cover all the cost of a staff member and nursery budgets are so stretched they need to save money where they can.

Thanks for taking the time to reply. It does give a better understanding and outlook. Thank you!

As @DriveInSaturday says.

Childcare settings do have to monitor attendance for safeguarding reasons as well in the same way schools do. If there is a lot of sickness and other absences there may be cause for concern. There have been a couple of recent cases where children have died and they have been missing from their childcare setting. From September this year, rules are going to be stricter on monitoring attendance.

More likely it's to do with funding though as if a child does not attend for a certain amount of time most local authorities take back the funding.