Nursery Cleaning Days

[SlimSchadey]

Hello MNers,

Our nursery recently went to a monthly fee schedule, rather than a weekly one. We now pay for bank holidays and training days, when the children don't attend, which is probably fair. However, the new 2012 calendar shows three days that the nursery is closed (and for which we are being charged) that are "cleaning days". Just wondering if anyone else has come across this at their nursery. We are in Central London.

I used to work at a nursery and no I've never come across cleaning days!! It was always fitted into our working week!

I used to work at a nursery which closed for a week in summer to clean. And we actually did spend a week cleaning! There are some things that you can't incorporate into the working week and IMO nurseries do need a deep clean for infection control purposes. We used to clean absolutely everything, every little building block and every centimetre of the building. It was hard work!

I used to really sympathise with some of the parents who struggled to find childcare in this week but on the other hand the nursery was open for 50 weeks of the year (closed for a week at Christmas too).

I think this nursery stopped this practice last year and only now close for one week at Christmas. Parents are charged for this week and bank holidays.