Childminder and funded hours

[Milkand2sugarsplease]

New to the funded hours aspect as 2.5 year old will get 15 hours come Easter and then 30 hours come September.

How do childminders generally do the funded hours when it comes to them closing for annual leave days.

DS is term time only with CM but she fairly regularly closes for odd days and takes her 2 out of school for day trips.im not criticising her for this, just trying to get my head around my new bills with funded hours but her choosing to close for the day?

It's so variable that you need to ask your cm. Others telling you what they do won't really help.

It will also depend on your LA. Ours doesn't mind the occasional day off and won't try and make us pay it back.

I assume you aren't currently charged for her holidays? In which case that will remain the same.

My local authority says we have to offer the entitled hours another day or they will claim the funding back. Not for parent holidays or sickness days but they would for childminder holidays.
Your CM could offer you another day in the school holidays.

Childminder here...I only offer funding in term time. I take my summer holiday during term time, therefore I will offer the funded hours elsewhere on other days that they would have got during those two weeks if I'd been working

If the cm closes for funded time she needs to offer alternative hours in that term ....if you don't use them it's lost....or refund the la.
If your child is off you loose the hours.
Your entitled to 38 weeks at 15 hours

So she calculates it as 1.5 days as funded and we then pay for the other 3.5 days and he goes term time only.

If she closed for 1 day one week, would I get a refund of that day (like I would at the minute without funded hours) or would she class it as his funded hours that day and I would therefore lose my funded hours because he's not in in holiday weeks to "make up" the hours.

To be honest, it's all new to her and she's not overly confident of it all herself.

If she's closed on a funded day then she either needs to give the funding back for that day, ie claim less hours, or move his funded day to a different day that week and charge you less. That would be up to her but it's more ethical to give you all the funded hours you're entitled to.

If she's closed on a day you usually pay then she should charge you less.

I don't actually know which hours are funded and which are paid for - just that 1.5 days is funded and 3.5 we pay for so I wouldn't actually know at the point she closes which it falls in.

For example, she's closed a couple of Fridays to take her kids out of school to do day trips to various theme parks

And she's closing for a few days in April to take one of hers to a gym competition abroad.

I'm not discouraging her from these and I'm not judging at all, just trying to work out where I stand because we're entitled to those hours so don't want to be paying for hours we should be getting funded and then also having to make alternative arrangements on those days too - I say alternative arrangement, by that I mean one of us taking the day off.