childcare\nursey charges

worto03

hi,

Our nursery charges us £5 a day more for our child than a child that goes 5 days a week because we only use them two days a week. This is going up to £8 a day more soon.

Is this normal & are they allowed to sell me exactly the same service as someone else but charge me more because I use them less often?

Personnaly I don't think there is much we can do - it's up to them and there is nothing we can do about it but we were speaking to parent we bumped into who is having an argument with them at the mo so thought I'd ask here for some thoughts.

thanks for any help,
worto.

sarahg1969

worto03 wrote: »

hi,

Our nursery charges us £5 a day more for our child than a child that goes 5 days a week because we only use them two days a week. This is going up to £8 a day more soon.

Is this normal & are they allowed to sell me exactly the same service as someone else but charge me more because I use them less often?

Personnaly I don't think there is much we can do - it's up to them and there is nothing we can do about it but we were speaking to parent we bumped into who is having an argument with them at the mo so thought I'd ask here for some thoughts.

thanks for any help,
worto.

I think the way you have to look at it is that they don't charge you more, but they give a discount to the people who use their services full-time.

That's the way nurseries usually work, in my experience.

worto03

yeah thats the way I understood it too.

vikingaero

The day rate at the nursery that the Vikingettes used to use charged £37 for a casual day rate and when you worked out the monthly costs divided by the number of days it came out to £32ish (depending on the number of days in the month).

It's much like using a train and buying return tickets each day or buying a season ticket.