YES - Sarah Steel, managing director, Old Station House Day Nursery
This blanket statement that parents must be able to access childcare with no top-up fee is benefiting the parent rather than putting the child at the centre of focus.
At the moment we're battling with our local council on this issue. We serve freshly cooked meals to the children. But we are told if we want to charge for these meals it is a top-up fee and parents should be allowed to bring in their own packed lunches instead of paying that fee.
It makes it very difficult to have everyone sit together and eat a meal when you have one child sat in the corner eating a packed lunch.
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