Please help me work out nursery fees!

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First time Mum, 2 year old starting nursery in September and we are entitled to 15 hours but we are both so confused! You wouldn’t believe we run a successful business would you 😂

We are entitled to 15 free hours from September. We would like her to do afternoon sessions as the morning sessions start at 7:30 and she sleeps until then and I’m also pregnant so will find it difficult to get a toddler and baby out of the door and to nursery for that time plus it would mean me waking her up.

I’ve attached the information sheet. Any help would be really appreciated! Thanks in advance.

Will they not allow the funded hours over term time only? Meaning you pay less on the weeks she goes?

Funding only covers 38 weeks of the year (school term time). Our nursery offers both term time funding and stretched. Term time is when the children only attend when the schools are in which means you have to find childcare for school holidays and as a result you receive the full 15 hours funding per week (currently think it’s going up in September). Stretched funding means you can send the children every week of the year but you won’t get the full 15 hours per week because they have to use it over 52 weeks of the year instead of 38. In your case they spread it over 51 weeks of the year which means you will most likely have to pay 1 full weeks fees at some point which is £207 on top of your normally monthly amount.

If they offer term time, you won’t have to pay for anything other than consumables each week but not all places will allow it.

The minimum amount you can send you DC for is 2 full days so you would pay £528 plus £60 which covers their food, activities, suncream etc. That will cost you £588 per month and will use 5.5 hours of funding per day (I think).