When do nursery vouchers start?

[Hulababy]

DD goes to a private day nursery 2 days a week. She is curently 2y 9m, and her birthday is at the beginning of April. She will still be at this nursery until she is 4y 9m, when she will start school in January 2007.

I have heard a bit about nursery vouchers, but know very little about them and how they work.

I do know the nursery accepts them, but when do they start and for how long they last. Neither do I know how much they are worth, and what affect it will have on the amount I pay for her to go to nursery.

Can anyone help me out and give me an idiot's guide to how the system works?

TIA

Hulababy, I may be way off-beam here because I'm in Scotand, but certainly when dd got nursery vouchers you could only claim for one session a day, up to 5 per week. So although two full days is 4 sessions, the vouchers would only cover two of them. It might be worth checking up on that.

The easiest way to look at it is that the vouchers are worth 12 1/2 hours a week 5 2 1/2 hour sessions.The vouchers are term time only so you get 11 weeks a term.The vouchers continue until their 5th birthday our daughter was offered a place at Ashdell a local prep and we would have got the value of the vouchers off her fees for the first 2 terms as well.
Hulababy I went in on the saturday and went home on Monday afternoon it is indeed a small world.

hula - did you get the email yet? if not can send it agian was details of two houses from uni website

Got them now; will look better when had less wine ;)