Free 15 hours for all 2 year olds?

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I've been considering swapping DS who will be 2 in October over to a nursery in a few months time for a few reasons. He is currently with a childminder and nursery is going to cost us at least another £100 a month for 2 days. Our mortgage is also going to increase massively in March so worried about finances. Am I right in thinking all 2 year olds with working parents will be getting 15 free hours from April next year? And then January 2025 he would get the free 30 hours?

I've been looking into this.

I understand that from April 2024, all 2 year olds will get 15 funded hours. The question, then, is what happens when the child turns 3? Given that 3 years olds currently have 30 funded hours, then I assume that will remain the case, but I've not found anything to clarify this.

Yes your dayes and the number of hours are correct BUT

1. don't forget it's term time (38/52 weeks),
2. meals are an allowable top up

and

1. the nursery can choose how tomoffer the hours. My DDs nursery for example have deduced to offer the hours as 5x 3 hour AM or PM session for the 15 hours, and 5x 9am-3pm for the 30 hours

That's good to know, I have asked to view one next month so will enquire before we make any decisions on how they offer it to see if it will be suitable or not as I would need it to fit around work. The nursery I really wanted him to go to is full until August 2024 so I can't decide whether to keep him with the childminder until then and put his name down for august but then he would only be there for around a year before he would start reception so I'm not really sure if it would be worth it? Or whether to just look for a different one sooner but they're a bit out my way for work 😩