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Out of hours school club charges

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  • shiny76
    shiny76 Posts: 548 Forumite
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    My daughter's school is £3 a day for breakfast care ( includes cooked breakfast) and if you use after school which is up to 6p.m. It's £65 per term.

    :eek: We pay £20/month for 1 afternoon session per week
  • Spendless
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    Mine were at a school with a more expensive breakfast club that the other schools, charging £4 (kids now 18 and 15 so a few years ago) per day instead of the 50p-£1 the others were charging. It was because it was a registered childcare facility, ran by an outside company though based at school, whereas the others were volunteers from the school running it, hence the cheaper charge there.
  • Fireflyaway
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    edited 5 July 2018 at 6:26PM
    shiny76 wrote: »
    :eek: We pay £20/month for 1 afternoon session per week

    I think maybe £65 a term is reasonable because my daughter attends a boarding school ( as a day pupil) so the staff is there anyway. It's not really costing school anything apart from making a few extra snacks.
  • rach_k
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    If you only paid for the time the child was there, you'd probably find they'd put the hourly rate up to account for the staff being there for the full two hours. It wouldn't save you any money so it would seem a bit daft to argue with them over it.
  • ecgirl07
    ecgirl07 Posts: 662 Forumite
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    The one in my school is £62 per week, for that you get 8 to 9 in the morning 3 to 6 after school AND 8 til 6 in the holiday weeks.

    Works out at £1something an hour
  • unholyangel
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    This sort of pricing has always struck me as strange in clubs/nurseries/childminder agreements. It would be considered misleading/unfair anywhere else.

    For example the charging parents when the nursery is closed for training days. Thats highly likely to be unfair because you are bound by your obligation (to pay the agreed price) but they are not bound by theirs (to provide x hours of childcare) and you can't have a contract that allows one party to not perform the contract at its discretion (aka in circumstances under their own control) while remaining binding on the other party. Any other business would work this into their overheads/pricing margin so that its split amongst all of their customers and not just some.

    Likewise with this. If they're only open 1.5hrs then they shouldn't be charging 2 hours. Thats not to say they should be providing it at the same hourly rate, rather that they should be working those costs into their hourly rate.

    After all, if you purchase 6 bread rolls, you don't expect the baker to charge you for 12 because he had to have staff in from 3am to make them.
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  • pinkshoes
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    I pay £4 for breakfast club from 7.30am until 8.45am which obviously includes breakfast.

    It is in the school hall, so no hall charge. Just 2 staff to pay. They have enough kids to make a profit which goes towards school activities.

    At £5.50 an hour you might be better off getting a nanny.
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