petition to stop nursery fees charges during bank holidays

[Laitan]

Please kindly sign below petition. We should not pay for services not recived.

chng.it/TwBF48b5KX

Verbally abusive

You are the person who doesn't realise nurseries are paid for by the parents who send their child there. Did you think there was a magic money pot that pays for them?!

**So you say, not Do you say blimmin autocorrect

Don't use a nursery on a Monday - solves majority of the issue!

In my 4 years of using a nursery for 2 children 3 days a week it has probably cost me no more than £800 between the two of them over that time so £200 a year - compared to my monthly cost not something I can get het up over!

Very naive view OP.

Actually (without reading the wording of the petiton) I don't think nurseries should charge for days on which they are not providing a service. If you had a regular appointment with the hairdressers on a Monday, but they did not want to do your hair on a bank holiday week as they were shut, you would not expect to still pay for the appointment would you? You would either miss going/paying that or you would make your appointment for a Tuesday instead either way you would pay for the service received. Nurseries should charge the fees over the days they are open to cover the costs of non working days, be that insurance at weekends of staff on bank holidays. The problem with a nursery charging fees for days they are closed is the burden falls unfairly on those who pay for mondays in particular as in an average year they will loose 4 days that those paying for say a Wednesday do not loose.

All that would happen will be a fee increase on regular days to that they don’t have to charge bank holidays.

Actually I agree the cost should be spread out - I used to use a nursery on a Monday and Tuesday only and was charged the same as someone who only used it on a Wed and Thur despite being able to send my children far fewer days (both my husband and I work bank hols so we didn't like paying for a days the nursery was closed). We changed our days in the end.

I used to work in a small community playgroup that charged by the session. Invoices were calculated from the exact number of days that each child would be attending that term, so they weren't charged for bank holidays when the playgroup was closed (neither were the staff paid!).

The nursery attached to the school where I currently work charges termly. So the fees are the same every term, regardless of how many weeks or how many Mondays, Tuesdays etc there are in the term. Some terms are 12 weeks, some are 9.5 weeks but the fees are still the same.

If a nursery business needs to make £X per year to be a viable business, they will either spread that over the whole year of weekdays, or charge a slightly higher daily fee if they don't charge for bank holidays. If bank holidays are "free" for parents, the daily rate will likely go up to compensate.

What a ridiculous notion, I won’t be signing! A petition for properly funded childcare would be more useful.

I can quite see why it is irritating to be charged for a day you’re not using. I wouldn’t much like it. But really you’re into a hiding to nothing doing a petition.

nurseries are private businesses and have their own charging structure. However to cover costs if you removed this specific charge then they would need to increase the regular day rate to cover their costs.

as part of the nursery running costs, not by charging parents.
OP where do you think the nursery running costs money comes from?

Very ill thought out.

Knife stabber?

Maybe people would be more happy to converse with you @Laitan if you explained how nurseries would be able to pay their running costs for bank holidays without parents somehow paying for it. You’ve been asked numerous times but haven’t yet explained it.

I'm so glad that the majority of posts on here are in support of nurseries. In many cases the 30 free hours childcare has screwed over many nurseries.
I know that they're a huge expense but I want my kids' nursery employing skilled professional workers and paying them well so that they don't leave for better paid work.

A lot of nurseries are running at a loss! The fees will have to go up.

I’ve never been paid for bank holidays.

I think it would fairer if they spread the income they get from charging on bank hols by increasing fees all year round. Then the burden doesn’t fall unfairly (ie. same week I pay £100 but get no childcare, other parent pays £100 and gets two days)

I appreciate this would require all nurseries doing this so as not to appear comparatively expensive. And I can’t see that happening. So all in all I think it’s just one of those things you just have to suck up.

So I see your point OP. Just think you’re scuppered. And for that reason won’t sign petition. Soz.

Presumably you get paid for your bank holidays? Why should nursery workers be any different?

If this was to pass, nurseries would just put the price up to cover the shortfall, so it would make absolutely no difference to what you pay.

I'm assuming you'okay with them raising fees to pay the staff from "business funds"?

at the fact that OP has requested a civil conversation with a PP and then ironically accuses another poster of raising a violent child!!

Sorry, no. Child care costs are high but that’s not sown to nurseries themselves that have to run as a business and pay for decent staff.