30 hours questions

[Getinajollymood]

Hi. Ds won’t be entitled to his free hours until next January but I’ll be on maternity leave then so trying to get my head around it.

At the moment, he does three days in nursery while I work. My understanding is that the hours only cover term time. Do most nurseries average the bill out over the course of the year or do they just bill you for what you have used?

My nursery averages them out. I think it's 22 hours per week.

The nursery my children attended allowed the hours to be spread over the year if you wanted. We chose to do this and therefore had a bill that was roughly the same every month. I'm not sure how it works if you are on maternity leave though

Nurseries can choose how to offer it stretched or term time and if it's am/pm with a non funded lunch break between hours like 9to 3 or full days ...you need to ask them how they offer it. Any additional charges must be voluntary so you can choose to take them out for lunch for example.
Stretched funding is 1140 hours divided by the number of weeks they are open...so one week closed for Christmas is 22.35 hours a week.