Originally Posted by
bunyip
I fear the LA auditors could be quite busy.
A trawl through the message boards on 'Mumsie-Netty' type sites reveals the frightening scale of parents who just don't get it.
There are lots of posts from mums, up in arms because their respective nurseries are "ripping them off" with charges for meals or set times for funded sessions, all stuff that's perfectly within the rules, plus a few things which may not be ok.
Typical was one mum, furious at a daily snacks charge of £5 when "all DD gets is a banana - I refuse to pay £5 for a banana." It simply didn't occur to her that nursery was trying to recoup something of their losses, and that she was getting free childcare if she'd only pay up £25pw.
But it's staggering how many 'helpful' replies they get, telling them to complain because the nursery will have to stop it or risk losing their funding. It doesn't seem to occur to them that parents will lose 30 free hours as a result of complaining over a few ££££s for such "unfair" charges. If the nursery loses its funding as a result, it's all the families who lose out, not just the idiot who raises the complaint.