30 hrs funded hours

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Hiya,

My 3 yo has just started nursery.

We are entitled to the 30 free hours but we have just received our first invoice and they are charging us £8.50 per day.

This does not include food, nappies etc.

As far as I knew they could only charge for consumables, food and nappies etc.

Is this the norm or should I query it?

TIA

It depends if they are term time only and how many hours per day they attend. 30 hours is based on term time only so if your little one is going all year round then it's less than 30 hours per week and they stretch the funding out over a year and would charge for the unfunded hours

Should have mentioned it is term time only and we do not use any additional hours. So no early starts or late pick ups.

All nurseries do things different so I would query just so your clear on what your being charged for

Just ask them what the charge is for. But yeah it's normal

It will be something like paying for the lunch hour

Sounds like the government funding isn't covering their costs. I'd ask them about it

We use 30 funded hours for 2 days at nursery. The funded hours should cover our dc’s time there but the nursery have just introduced a £1.50 per hour per child top up.