twise
10-12-2008, 09:51 AM
I have been looking after A since feb of this year..i love her too bits and treat her as one of my own. Her mum is a single parent and from Feb to Sep was on lone parent payments...they paid part of my fees. The payments were always in arrears and sometimes they owed me upto 8 weeks. Obviously i didn't see it as the parents fault and therefore never charged late payment fees. Occassionaly she couldn't pay me on time and again because of her circumstances i allowed her to be a few days late and never charged her the extra.
A's mum started college at the end of September, I had to fill out the childcare cost forms and we agreed I would up my fee by a £1.00 per hour. This would then cover me for holiday pay and also reduced her perdonal fees to me as the student support pays 85% of childcare costs....this basicallly means she only pays me £23 a month instead of £126.
I advised her weeks ago that i am taking 2 weeks off at xmas (the first holiday i have had all year) and expect payment as the college are paying it.
She came to me last night and said that she will only pay me a week from 22 december and the followng week 29 december she has to place child A in the college nursery at a cost of £35 per day and therefore will not be paying me for that week as she cannot aford to pay for 2!!
I was so cross and really didn't want to respond there and then as i think i would of terminated her contract!
Firstly, i didn't think college/uni childcare facilities were open over the christmas break and secondly i am saving her over £100 per month ...£1200 per year so she can afford to pay for the extra childcare .
i really can't think straight at the moment as all i think is the amount of times i have helped her out etc and i feel a bit used to be honest.
what would you do
tracy:mad:
A's mum started college at the end of September, I had to fill out the childcare cost forms and we agreed I would up my fee by a £1.00 per hour. This would then cover me for holiday pay and also reduced her perdonal fees to me as the student support pays 85% of childcare costs....this basicallly means she only pays me £23 a month instead of £126.
I advised her weeks ago that i am taking 2 weeks off at xmas (the first holiday i have had all year) and expect payment as the college are paying it.
She came to me last night and said that she will only pay me a week from 22 december and the followng week 29 december she has to place child A in the college nursery at a cost of £35 per day and therefore will not be paying me for that week as she cannot aford to pay for 2!!
I was so cross and really didn't want to respond there and then as i think i would of terminated her contract!
Firstly, i didn't think college/uni childcare facilities were open over the christmas break and secondly i am saving her over £100 per month ...£1200 per year so she can afford to pay for the extra childcare .
i really can't think straight at the moment as all i think is the amount of times i have helped her out etc and i feel a bit used to be honest.
what would you do
tracy:mad: