Can anyone advise regarding the 30 hours free nursery for 3 and 4 year olds?
My child currently goes to a lovely nursery and will be eligible for the 30 FEL hours in January 2019. The nursery have sent a letter home this week stating that the free hours must be taken on a MAXIMUM of 3 days between the hours of 8am-6pm. This sounds ok until you read further on and realise that ONLY the 5 hours between 9-12pm and 1-3pm are actually free. We are then expected to pay £2.75 per hour for 8-9am, 12-1pm and 3-6pm, plus lunch at £3 per meal. Does this sound unreasonable? Are other nurseries also putting restrictions and added costs in place? How are they allowed to charge an additional £2.75 per hour? What is it for? We're really flexible in how to claim the 30 hours, we'd be happy for 5 days 9-3pm or 3 days 8-6pm (although we would probably pick up at 4pm at the latest and chose to miss out on a few hours each day). When our other child was entitiled to 15 hours FEL at the same nursery setting we were able to claim these easily and just paid for the lunch hour and lunch money so didn't expect this nor think they were able to do this. How are other nurseries offering the FEL hours?
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climbingtrees · 27/04/2018 14:45
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