| TWTD WWYD - Nursery Edition 01:15 - Mar 22 with 4050 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
My 2 years olds nursery have confirmed they are closing for all but the children of key workers from this week, in line with government advice. As neither me nor my partner come under the key worker definition, he’ll need to stay home (quite rightly)
Our nursery however have written to us confirming that as they will still be opening and needing to fund running costs, they will need to charge full fees for the duration that the advice is in place. As he goes 2 days a week at a cost of £60+ per day, fees total c£500-600 a month
I am sympathetic as the partial closure is enforced and clearly they have a business to run, however at the same time am loathe to pay a substantial sum of money for a service that won’t be received. I think if it was 1 month I’d be quite happy to suck it up however all signs seem to point to this being 3 months minimum and potentially quite a bit longer
Am I being unfair if I refuse to pay? Me and my partner are both quite fortunate in that we can work from home and currently look to be unaffected work wise (both our employers have been supportive and adopted a ‘do what you can’ approach to him being at home whilst working however there is a chance things could change down the line if this is ongoing for some time. I’m also of a mindset that it would be prudent to be putting away some funds over the next few months in case something changes down the line and obviously that money will go a long way towards that
I guess I have 3 options as I see it:
- suck it up and pay, on the basis that we can afford it, it isn’t really the nursery’s fault and he’ll be able to go back at some point to an environment he enjoys and is developing well in
- refuse to pay, on the basis we’re not getting the service paid for. This will risk his place when they re-open (nursery is very popular so I assume we’ll have to find somewhere else)
- make some sort of counter offer (eg. pay half to maintain his place) on the basis we can’t justify the full cost and need to be prudent. This is quite tempting as it is presumably better for them to receive that than £0, and I don’t believe paying the full fees to be right as they must be saving on costs not having everyone in. They may also be entitled to government support under the new measures
Views? Interested to hear if anyone else is in a similar boat - not really sure what the norm is here so difficult to know if they’re taking the p*ss or not! |  |
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| TWTD WWYD - Nursery Edition on 19:52 - Mar 22 with 609 views | GluedtoBlue |
My daughters nursery have also confirmed closure this week. Their approach seems reasonable:
1 month full pay
After that, payment will be due but at a TBC reduced rate based on government aid.
I'm personally happy with the above as I want a good nursery for my children to go back to after this all calm downs.
I'd be mightily annoyed at full price throughout though as I believe the nursery will be profiting. |  |
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| TWTD WWYD - Nursery Edition on 20:12 - Mar 22 with 594 views | Swansea_Blue |
| TWTD WWYD - Nursery Edition on 01:50 - Mar 22 by jeera |
How the holy f*ck can you give someone £500 a month for not providing the service you're paying for?
That's my first question.
My second question is what is your job and how do I go about qualifying? |
That’s normal practice for nurseries in my experience. We always had to pay full whack when our two weren’t there, for however long. There can be a shortage of spaces and they justify it on the grounds of keeping a space open. Sounds crazy in hindsight, and it’s not cheap. |  |
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| TWTD WWYD - Nursery Edition on 20:14 - Mar 22 with 591 views | ElderGrizzly |
| TWTD WWYD - Nursery Edition on 19:52 - Mar 22 by GluedtoBlue |
My daughters nursery have also confirmed closure this week. Their approach seems reasonable:
1 month full pay
After that, payment will be due but at a TBC reduced rate based on government aid.
I'm personally happy with the above as I want a good nursery for my children to go back to after this all calm downs.
I'd be mightily annoyed at full price throughout though as I believe the nursery will be profiting. |
Ours is announcing their final position tomorrow. I hope it is something like that too.
They have said they will open their accounts to justify any charges too today. |  | | |
| TWTD WWYD - Nursery Edition on 20:27 - Mar 22 with 582 views | itfcjoe |
We are quite lucky then, as ours is not charging whilst shut, and any thing you've paid for April fees will be held and credited afterwards for sessions when it does re-open.
Doesn't really effect us as we will keep sending ours there for their 2 days a week due to work, but think expecting people to pay full whack is very off as there obviously savings for not having the nursery open. |  |
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| TWTD WWYD - Nursery Edition on 21:43 - Mar 22 with 551 views | ElderGrizzly |
| TWTD WWYD - Nursery Edition on 20:27 - Mar 22 by itfcjoe |
We are quite lucky then, as ours is not charging whilst shut, and any thing you've paid for April fees will be held and credited afterwards for sessions when it does re-open.
Doesn't really effect us as we will keep sending ours there for their 2 days a week due to work, but think expecting people to pay full whack is very off as there obviously savings for not having the nursery open. |
Around 80% are wages, so assume unless you lay those staff off then there is a huge hole. And no nursery to come back to.
Why the recent announcement on a wages grant is so beneficial. Ours is taking that on board as given it was only announced late last week they haven’t had chance to get all the details.
I could send ours due to key worker, but won’t due to risks of exposure. Appreciate not everyone can do this though.
I can’t see any opening again properly for 3 months based on latest information, so it is a big ask if they asked people to pay that much for no service. [Post edited 22 Mar 2020 21:45]
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