Childcare deposit

evansc1

Hi hi

Moving home on the weekend and have just had an invoice through from our new childcare provider for DD. It requests 2 weeks' deposit 'to secure place'...sure sure I'm alright with that.

The issue is that the deposit is reduced from the final month of childcare (whenever that will be) and not taken off the first month's childcare cost.

Is this normal?? Everything I have seen is that it is usually contributing to the first month, not the final month...

Guest101

Broad as it's long - those are the terms, you a free to say yes or no.

thriftylass

Yes, its was the same for us in a private and in a council nursery.

AndyBSG

Our childcare provider don't even do that, they just charge you an up front fee for even registering with them with no guarantee of even getting a place and certainly no chance of getting the money back at any point!

Guest101

AndyBSG wrote: »

Our childcare provider don't even do that, they just charge you an up front fee for even registering with them with no guarantee of even getting a place and certainly no chance of getting the money back at any point!

A fee for an expression of interest? I doubt that would be non-refundable

thecoffeehouse204

I think it's fairly common, it's to cover the nursery fees should you just decide to take your child out of nursery without any notice. The nursery we used had a two week notice period and the contract stated that the 'deposit' would be used to cover the notice period

Kynthia

Same at my place unfortunately

evansc1

Thanks all. Managed to get it to 1 week's care as DD starts so soon