Nursery fees

I’m a bit confused on my nursery fees. I received my invoice today and it’s £576 per month WITH funding but when I calculated it, it was £270. On the invoice it also says “11.2 hours funding” but I thought that was for people who use the nursery all year round? Like the stretch it so it can be used over summer holidays etc? We don’t have to because we don’t send her over half term or school holidays and the nursery told us that we do not have to pay to keep her place over half term. It also says that the £576 is the monthly cost for April, May, June, July and August but like I said, we’re not sending her in August or a week in May and 2 weeks in April because it’s half term!!! I’m confused on: 1. Why it’s 11.2 hours when she’s term time only 2. Why it’s £576 because it’s £58 per day and we only send her for 3 days a week at 8 hours per day, plus we’re entitled to 15 hours free childcare per week. So roughly, that would be £250-300 a month right? 3. Is this a mistake do you think because we are we being charged for the school holidays when our baby is term time only and they said they don’t charge you over holidays if you’re term time only?

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Sounds like they have calculated it as if they are all year round. Id just mention it to them. Also if you aren't also using tax free childcare you can use it alongside the funded hours.

On your funded days you need to pay a top up as it’s funded hours not free. I’m in Scotland so we don’t get this but we do get the 30 hours at age 3 which starts in September for us. On the days where the full day is funded we pay £14, the funded half days we pay the half day fee for the remainder of the day and and £8 charge for top up during the funded hours. Our bill is going up to around £1600 per month from April but we will save around £400 a month when the 30 hours kick in which is less than I thought but it’s because of the top up charges. X

I would email nursery and ask them to explain the invoice to you x

@Chelsea it depends on the nursery. We don't pay any top up fees.

If your nursery is open all year round (52 weeks a year) then they ration the hours across those 52 weeks. It doesn’t matter if you only send your child in term time. Just like you have to still pay Fee fees when your child isn’t in nursery, like when you go on holiday..

@Naomi it does matter. If a child is only in term time they only get charged for that cos they aren't holding their place in the holidays. I have it set up for my daughter to do certain days term time and others all year round and I do not get charged for the term time days in the holidays.

Our nursery doesn't charge during half term if you're term time only either. We utilise all year round but I always see the reminder for parents about term dates. We do however pay a top up for funded days. I'd just email and ask them to check and explain. When we were first entitled to funding our bill came through a lot more expensive than I'd expected and when I asked they'd just forgot to apply the funding 😊

Thanks guys! We emailed and asked and turns out they accidentally calculated it as if she is there all year round. Phew😂

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