Do you pay nursery fees for bank holidays?

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As the title says really? :-)

Yes, its a monthly fee, regardless of how many bank holidays there are in any given month. No day in lieu or anything.

No.

No.

Not at our old nursery but yes at the new one (moved house)

Not at our old nursery but yes at the new one (moved house)

Yes. I deliberately do not use the nursery on Monday because of this.

Yes, all holidays are pro-rated across the year.

Yes same mount each month regardless of holidays bank or otherwise

Yes, I also swapped days to not work Monday for this reason.

no.

No and I avoid Monday's for dd free hours so I don't miss out on them.

Yes

Yes.

Ours is pro-rated so we pay the same each month regardless. They close for a few extra days at some Bank Hols and that's factored in too.

Oh, and we also pay for a full day even when they have shortened hours over the Christmas period .

Yes

No

DD's nursery doesn't do bank holidays. Only shuts for a week at Christmas and Easter and we can take a further 2 weeks off at our choice (so 4 weeks we don't pay per year) - is that unusual?

I don't know actually, I presume I would as I pay a flat monthly fee, but as DD2 is only in Tues-Thurs it's never really come up.

weeeeelll I pay monthly for both the nursery and the childminder. They charge for 50 weeks a year and divide it by 12.

However my nursery manager is brilliant as DS2 ( and DS1 when he was there) is always in on a Monday - she lets me 'move' the day elsewhere. This is marvellous as I have Wednesdays off work, so I put DS2 in for the morning and have 'me' time :)

The childminder doesn't - its tough titties as far as she's concerned. But thats ok because there arent as many BH's on a Friday

My dd is also only in Tuesday -Thursday but there was a Tuesday BH over Christmas that we didn't get charged for. Nor did we get charged for the other shut down days.

Ours gets deducted off on the invoice for the month ahead.

I'm shocked to hear that some nurseries charge for bank holidays. This would really only be reasonable if all children were in 5 days a week. If I was paying the same in a bank holiday week I'd expect them to take my DS in as normal so I could have a nice bank holiday of complete rest without any toddler-wrangling.

Our nursery only charges for the days they are open, so training days, bank holidays etc are all deducted from the monthly bills.

If you pay for bank holidays, then in 2012 someone who had a DC in nursery on Mondays and Tuesdays would get 97 days, whereas someone with a DC in on Wednesdays and Thursdays would get 103 days, for the same money. I wouldn't use any nursery that did that.

No.

Thanks, it's just that she only goes on Monday and Wednesday afternoons, and it's expensive (£30 for the afternoon). And we pay each month as sometimes the amounts are different due to planned holidays and extra days.

Was just a bit cross to be charged for bank holidays, but then I suppose work still pay me for bank holidays.

Just emailed the nursery and they got it wrong. For the majority of children they pay in arrears, whereas new starters pay in advance. We are one of only a few who are paying now for May, and she had forgotten about the BH. So its all cleared and a new invoice is on its way.

Phew!