Are you eligible for 30 Hours FREE childcare funding?
30 hours FREE Childcare Funding Entitlement equates to 3 full days of free early years education and childcare per week. If you pay for an additional 2 days per week to top up the 3 funded days with Kiddiecare Nursery, it will cost only £116.70 per funded week.
The UK Government has launched a new website for parents of 3 & 4 year old children to register and claim 30 hours free childcare funding entitlement from a childcare provider of their choice. Full information on all forms of assistance is available on the ‘Childcare Choices‘ website. For 30 hours free childcare funding entitlement, parents must register on the government ‘Childcare Service‘ website to be able to claim the full 30 hours of free childcare per week, and nominate their chosen childcare provider.
What we offer
Kiddiecare Nursery is offering 30 Hours of FREE childcare per week to eligible parents with a child aged 3 to 4 years old. This 30 hours of free childcare per week starts in September 2017 and is funded by a brand new government scheme known as ‘Extended Entitlement’.
The current 15 hours of free funding entitlement is already available for pre-school children aged 3 & 4 via your chosen childcare provider, regardless of parental income. This 15 hour entitlement remains unchanged.
As with the 15 hours free childcare funding entitlement, the 30 hours free childcare funding entitlement is available for 38 weeks in the year. The ‘funded’ weeks normally follow the local school term dates. Although this can be stretched over 45 weeks of the year and can prove more beneficial to you as a working parents.
Eligibility
The new 30 hours entitlement is available as a top-up to the current 15 hours provision. To be eligible for the additional 15 hours of funding, each parent of the child must be employed a minimum equivalent of 16 hours per week, earning at least the national minimum wage. Each parent must earn less than £100,000 per year. Single parent families are also eligible, provided the sole parent works an equivalent of 16 hours per week, at national minimum wage.
To check if you are eligible for the additional funding you will need to register on childcarechoices.gov.uk website. If you are entitled you will be given a code which needs to given into us at Kiddiecare Nursery as soon as possible and you will be required to complete a funding form. You can start to receive your free entitlement the term after you receive your eligibility code from HMRC. The nursery manager will need to confirm your code on the eligibility checker on the borough portal before your child can start attending at Kiddiecare Nurseries. The manager must ensure all start and end dates are correct for that term before confirming a start date at the nursery.
Once eligible you will need to reconfirm your information with the HMRC every 3 months, if you do not do this or your circumstances change you may lose your entitlement to the additional 15 hours. This is the parent’s responsibility to ensure these deadlines are meet as all children’s end date will be different. You will be given a grace period but once this has lapsed you will only be entitled to the universal 15-hour entitlement.
Limited Availability
We only have a limited number of places available. So, if you think you may be entitled to the 30hour extended funding, please call us to discuss your eligibility and to register your interest with us.
