chuckpeterson
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My 3yo son has just qualified for the 30 hours free childcare. We currently pay just over £1,800 per child for four days at a nursery in London and were hoping that the free hours would result in a decent chunk of that being reduced.
Our bill has only reduced by just under £500 though and on querying, the nursery has said that they just deduct the difference that they receive from the local authority (which works out at just under £5/hour). From reading, it sounds like this isn’t permitted and whilst they can charge for sundries (e.g. food, nappies etc.) they can’t just charge the difference. At the moment they’re charging us almost £70/day for these items…
I’m not sure if this is just par for the course or I whether I should be pushing for a bigger reduction if anyone has any experience? It’s an expensive nursery just we partly justified it on the reduction we’d be getting from this point.
Was torn between putting this is /legaladviceuk and /ukparenting so apologies if it’s be better placed in one of those.
Our bill has only reduced by just under £500 though and on querying, the nursery has said that they just deduct the difference that they receive from the local authority (which works out at just under £5/hour). From reading, it sounds like this isn’t permitted and whilst they can charge for sundries (e.g. food, nappies etc.) they can’t just charge the difference. At the moment they’re charging us almost £70/day for these items…
I’m not sure if this is just par for the course or I whether I should be pushing for a bigger reduction if anyone has any experience? It’s an expensive nursery just we partly justified it on the reduction we’d be getting from this point.
Was torn between putting this is /legaladviceuk and /ukparenting so apologies if it’s be better placed in one of those.