I've been trying to figure this out from the government websites, so apologies if I'm being dense, but I was just wondering if there is any way a two parent family can be eligible for the 30 hours free childcare if one parent doesn't meet the working threshold - but said parent is also unable to do full-time childcare because of a long-term health condition (severe and recurrent back pain from a herniated disc). My husband isn't on disability because he can work a few hours a week as an online teacher, and every couple of months does a couple of days' work in London (he works in the arts), but he was unable to keep working in hospitality (his previous main income) because of it. His condition is such that he can manage a couple of days of toddler wrangling a week, but he needs the rest of the weekdays to recover so I end up paying full whack for nursery, which is fairly crippling at the moment.
Appreciate we probably fall between two stools here, and we're lucky that we can just about stretch to it, but thought I should ask the Mumsnet brains!