Children born between April and September 2022

[EdwinBaber]

As the Dad of an April 22 little girl, when will the 15 hours kick in for us ?
I'd hope it'd be when our kids turn 2 but fear it'll be September 2024.

September, not April (cut off for
summer term is 31st March)

It’s the term after they reach the age

When there are enough spaces available at the local nursery to accommodate all these extra children wanting free childcare spaces. This might be interesting seeing as there isn't the capacity in the system / enough staff to do this. The amount the government pay for free places won't cover the cost of the nursery - currently nurseries will be using these spaces to part fund free childcare spaces for older children. The decrease in their income from widening free spaces is probably going to put a good number of nurseries out of business. 'Free' spaces will have a host of supplementary fees where nurseries do have spaces available.

I'm dying to know where all these trained extra nursery staff are going to come from.

My point here is that, if you are in the first wave expecting places to magically appear as promised for the first available date, don't hold your breathe. It's going to take a number of years after roll out before there will be sufficient places available to meet demand. And then only if government actually properly funds the change.

She's already in a nursery so that won't be an issue.
Seems like late spring 22 babies are uniquely comparatively disadvantaged by the system compared to their older and younger peers.

Yeah, it’s the same all round. There’s no payment in the holidays anyway, so a child born 2 Sep doesn’t get anything until early jan etc.

She will still get a full school years funding from September 24 to the end of July 25 and will academically be better off than August babies as older in her year.

That's incorrect, a child born September 2022 gets funding in September 2024 for 15 hours & 30 hours in September 2025 and another year in 2026 due to the 9 months old rule.

Can’t quite recall now, but given my post was from March 2023, it’s possible the rules changed in the 14 months since, no?

No cut off dates mean children must have birthdays before 1st of September/December/April for cut off but all only get paid term time only so nobody is paid for 14 weeks funding a year ....you can stretch it if settings allow but it's the same number of hours