Nursery not passing on free 15h

[toast]

Hello,

Advice needed, my childs nursery has just said that they only pass on money for children doing 3 days or more, so children going 2 days get nothing. The nursery have recommended us putting him in for an extra day as it works out cheaper, really not satisfactory as i quite like his company!. I really don't want to fall out with them but i'm really annoyed esp as their website states that they pass it on to ALL children.

I don't know many other parents there, what would you do?/ Does anyone get the discount elsewhere on 2 days?

[ClareC]

Which nursery is this?

[toast]

ClareC

I'll pm you, I don't want to name and shame and put people off as its a lovely nursery which is new and still finding its feet, and I am still hoping the nursery might reconsider. Would love to know how other nurserys work this out.

[Fuschia]

Are they open all year round?

They can offer your your 570 hours spread out over more than 38 weeks

Minimum entitlement is 15h x 38w

They certainly can

Offer you 12.5h over 2 days anyway if they want to but I dint think they are obliged to

Worth speaking to the lea though

Try your local councillor

Cop

http://media.education.gov.uk/assets/files/doc/c/cl%20-%20co/code%20of%20practice%20for%20local%20authorities%20%20%20september%202010.doc

See 3.4 and 3.9

[Fuschia]

I don't think they can

Insist you book for more than 15h though

So they ARE prohibited from

Demanding you sign

Up for 3 full days unless they Are very short days! If they are doing that, they are in breach o'c the guidelines to bs registered for the grant

Don't see why you can't arrange a place for 2.5 days ... They can't force him

To attend the half day, can they, really?!

[toast]

Thanks Fuschia

Good to see your back on the forum. I did call the council and a very nice lady said that we should get the discount and she would give them a call. I roughly worked it out and its worth over 2k so fingers crossed.

[Fuschia]

toast Wrote:

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> Thanks Fuschia

> Good to see your back on the forum.

Thanks

I did call the

> council and a very nice lady said that we should

> get the discount and she would give them a call. I

> roughly worked it out and its worth over 2k so

> fingers crossed.

Let us know how it turns out. Thinking about it, if they were insisting you took MORe than 15h they have probably broken their agreement with the council.

[toast]

They were not insisting, just suggesting. My gut feeling is that they just could not get their heads around it. It does sound VERY complicated. Will feedback.

[Fuschia]

I think they can either divide your 570 hours by a different no of weeks, or give you 12.5h free which is the max you cSn tAke in 2 days if for 38w

What are the hours?

[BB100]

There have been a lot of problems with the free hour entitlement because it usually costs private nurseries more than they actually get from the LA to provide it. Some nurseries have instead refused to offer it because of it.

[toast]

Thanks for pm's, it clearly is possible. I am expecting to still have to pay a wack, just given that it would be a ?217 pm discount of we were 3 days I was banking on childcare costs finally easing. It's such a lot of money, worth checking out. Thanks again for the examples from other nursery by pm.

[Fuschia]

Toast, 12.5h over 2 days has to be free

They were going to charge ?317pcm if you used 3 days? Seems very high

[toast]

All sorted thanks to intervention by council who helped the nursery work out a 'stretched' solution we will get 10.5h spread over the whole year. Thanks for all the helpful posts and pm's.