15 hrs free childcare and provider holidays

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We are getting the funded 15 hours as of September. The childminder doesn't charge us for holiday she has each year but charges me full for mine. What happens in regards to the free 15 (12 for year round) hours?

Speak to your childminder. I make sure my parents get all their funded hours if I’m on holiday. If parent choose to take holiday during their funded hours that’s their choice.

If you take holiday during funded hours the childminder doesn’t have to offer you those hours another time. You essentially forfeit the hours.

If you get 12 hours all year round that is about 47 weeks, so the childminder is already allowing for her taking 5 weeks unpaid holiday.

If you take holiday during your funded weeks then you lose those hours.

Hi all Thanks for your replies. Apologies I wasn't clear I know I will have to pay for my own holiday as I do per the terms of our contract, but I'm wondering with her holidays as she currently does not charge me anything the days she is not working, and so I have to find alternative childcare as she does not work alongside other minders. Does this mean CM can still claim my free hours on the weeks she is on holiday, even though her holidays are not chargeable to me? What will happen to those hours does anyone know? The 12 hours would be 47.5 weeks in a year or 11 hours per week for 52 weeks.

Thanks for your reply. Can you claim from the government different amounts each time per month/period/term for a child providing you do not exceed 570 in a year for that child?
Sorry I am just not sure how things are from the other side of things

Hours offered are the hours to be claimed. Yes these can be adjusted each term.

Is she taking her holiday in term time or in the equivalent of school holidays? The 15/30 funded hours are effectively term-time hours.

The hours can be adjusted each term but you will have contracted hours with your childminder. You pay for a space so if you take holiday the space still needs to be paid for. If I am closed I do not charge however, if a family takes holiday then I still charge in full

My childminder uses any hours she misses due to holiday, etc and gives them to me in the holidays instead.

What hours do you mean? If you are having 12 hours for 47.5 weeks then the CM has 4.5 weeks unpaid holiday.

If I take holiday I offer the funded hours at another time to ensure the full entitlement is supplied. You would need to speak to your childminder and ask her how she would prefer to do it. Some childminders claim less hours if they are unable to offer the hours at another time.

No, it's throughout the year and doesn't always correspond with the school holidays, but I wonder if CM can put hours in when she's not working due to her holiday, and me affectively miss out on those hours

Thank you that is helpful, I'm not sure what is allowed as I worry the cm will claim when she's not taking my child, so I'll miss out on those hours. I'm sure she is able to put it through like that and I miss out on the hours

Thank you that is helpful!

I think you need to find a new childcare provider as you don't trust this one.

Funding is term time only so 570 hours a year she's claiming 12 hours a week making 47.5 weeks a year suggesting she's closed 4.5 weeks a year.

If I take holiday then I adjust the weeks I'm claiming for on the funding portal when I have to put my numbers in. I only off errors during term time. I take my summer holiday during term time, so, instead of claiming for 12 weeks during the summer term, I only claim for 10, so I wouldn't get funding for the 2 weeks I'm away

So you don't trust your cm?