My childcare centre announced a couple of weeks ago that their casual rate was going to be increasing: a significant increase too, about 70% more than what I currently pay OOP after CCS. Of course I immediately went out and looked at other centres, to see if this rate hike was comparative to other centres. Turns out that the price increase was raising the price to a rate higher than many other centres. So even though they offered to grandfather our casual rate after I noted the increases was not conducive to us staying (ie no rate increase for us cos we special) even the not-increased rate is not competitive - the fees have slowly ratcheted up over the past few years, and so... we will definitely be jumping ship, and while I'm not really surprised, I'm a bit saddened at the #enshittification of this, like everything. Let them churn seems to be the mantra of pretty much every sector these days. It's easier tbh as my daughter has been complaining about childcare for a while: pretty much since she started sessional kinder at our small rural kinder with excellent ratio and fantastic outdoor area and bush kinder program.
Still, gotta love it: #fuck_around_and_find_out, bitches (they are actually pretty nice at my childcare, wouldn't have stayed if they weren't).
This is your timely reminder to check offers for just about everything, because if you haven't, you are probably paying too much.