You do not pay for our closing days, as we have no personnel expenses on these days. These expenses, by the way, specify 70% of our rates. You do, however, pay for holidays, as on these days our personnel expenses continue. If we did not charge these days, the costs would have to be spread over fewer days a year, with the result that the hourly rate would increase.
Moreover, it may be good to know that we divide the annual rate by 12 months, thus invoicing the same amount and the same number of childcare hours every month. So we work with average childcare hours per month. If you apply for childcare allowance, you can pass the same number of hours to the tax authorities for a whole year. This is not only easier, but often also more advantageous for you.
It is not possible to switch closing days and holidays. Closing days are not charged and therefore cannot be switched. As for holidays, we cannot offer these as ‘switch days’, because we do not have enough availability. Besides, the GGD (Area Health Authority) does not allow us to accommodate more children than the allowable group size, so you can only switch days if the group size allows this and only in the same week, the week before or after.
