jiristancl Posted October 25, 2011 Posted October 25, 2011 Hi I am a nursery manager, the FEL guidelines state: No requirement for child to access additional hours (including outside of the 38 weekds) for a fee.
Guest makapaka Posted October 25, 2011 Posted October 25, 2011 Hi I am a nursery manager, the FEL guidelines state: No requirement for child to access additional hours (including outside of the 38 weekds) for a fee. Thanks for all your replies. jiristacnl - what exactly does that mean then? If she doesn't go for more than 38 weeks there should be no fee?
jiristancl Posted October 26, 2011 Posted October 26, 2011 yep there not allowed to charge if you attend more then 38 weeks. At my nursery we only do term time for children who claim there fel, because we have to?
Guest makapaka Posted October 27, 2011 Posted October 27, 2011 yep there not allowed to charge if you attend more then 38 weeks. At my nursery we only do term time for children who claim there fel, because we have to? Thanks. What about if we only want her to attend during term time i.e 38 weeks. Can there be a charge in that situation? Just to clarify it is a private nursery that she is attending.
indiechick Posted October 27, 2011 Posted October 27, 2011 yep there not allowed to charge if you attend more then 38 weeks. At my nursery we only do term time for children who claim there fel, because we have to? I can't see this applying to all private nurseries, otherwise nurseries like the one my daughter goes to would not be allowed to only have 51 week contracts They are all checked out by ofsted etc so if they really were not allowed to only do 51 week contracts they would have been pulled up on this by now
Flutterbyes Posted October 28, 2011 Posted October 28, 2011 Hi I am a nursery manager, the FEL guidelines state: No requirement for child to access additional hours (including outside of the 38 weekds) for a fee. that's what I thought but had not got round to looking. providers who want to provide the FEL must agree to the criteria on of which has been written above. Basically if you only want to send your child term time only 15 hours a week the nursery can not charge you for the other 14 weeks of the year... although what they can do is offer the funding in sessions... say morning and afternoon 8.30 till 11.30 and 12.30 till 3.30 if you want your child to attend the whole day then you have to pay for that hour in the middle... 11.30 till 12.30, very sneaky but I wonder if your nursery is charging and extortionate amount for this hour... you don't HAVE to have this hour but it means collecting and dropping child back at nursery... ask for an appointment, go in and ask for a breakdown. why do they want to charge so much?
sheff@ Posted October 28, 2011 Posted October 28, 2011 Hi, Private nurseries are allowed to charge for hours during the holiday periods and unfortunately there is no way out of it! Like previous posts have said many nurseries do offer term time only contracts but understandable you don't want to move due to her being so settled. They have to how ever provide an invoice which clearly states how many hours free entitlement you have used with how many hours your paying for this must be made clear. You can not be forced to pay for something I.e dinner during term time. It is a muddy area within the guidelines but it is allowed to happen as they are classed as a private business, I have brought this exact situation up with the council department and they are not breaking any guidelines unfortunately.
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