I’m writing this post to share some of my experience on day care centers in SriLanka.
I faced a problem taking care my child ,since I had to report to work after my maternity leaves was over.As my parents were not physically fit I had to look for an alternative solution.Due to this I have decided to look for a day care center.
I visited several day care centers in Nugegoda area.After visiting them I really got confused. Some seems to be small scale centers which has less children count and seems staff can pay attention to children individually.These centers have fairly high cost.(roughly close to 20k per month together with material cost (like 16k). Most of them allow to view the day care and some are willing to explain their facilities.Some day care centers have less monthly fees any ways there are lots of indirect costs. Other fact is that there is holiday period for each term. That is acceptable as long as it is communicated to parents upfront.
After analyzing several day care centers and their facilities. I choose one . Particularly I had problem with day cares who has vacation every term. Due to these reasons I had limited choices.However ,i finally decided to get a service of a day care center in Nawala area.The location was convenient because it was beside Nawala -Rajagiriya road .At the time of enrolling my kid was 1.5 years old.
Around seven months pass by , my kid turned 2 .At the starting of year 2019 ,when I was going to pay monthly fees for the day care. The lady who collect money informed me that you have to pay term fee and day care fee .Not knowing the reason of increasing of fees I was totally shocked and expected a explanation from the lady.The explanation was ,she is now into play group and there for you need to pay term fee and day care fee separately. Oka , that was fair enough. On top of that there is material cost which is again 5digit number.I would understand that it is time for my child to enroll into play group
But why you haven’t communicated me on this earlier.The answer was , it was in the parent -child communication book. To my surprise there was no such thing in the book which said the day care would put children over 2 years into play group.May be it was common sense which I lagged after all.
At this point I was totally confused and angry .I was trying to reach out to the lady who in charge of the day care. She seems to be super irradiate on my questions.
At this point I have several questions in my mind.
Is there are regulations for day care centers in Lanka.Including fees and facilities ?As a working mother I have totally lost patient on this day care.Finally is there any places that we can complaint on these centers in case of disputes.
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