EYFS - Early Funding how much is it worth at a Private Nursery?

[Sallypoo]

Hi All

I wonder if you can help?

I'm expecting my 2nd baby in the summer, and so am working out nursery costs.

My DS will be 3 and should get the EYFS from January 2011.

He goes to a Nursery 3 days a week and I understand that he can get 12.5 hrs free over 38 weeks. I've worked out how much this would be worth £225 a month or £8,500 a yr) and it looks too good to be true!

Does anyone know if there is an upper amount that the Council will pay for the EYFS?

many thanks
Sallypoo

Hi

My dd went for 3 days and I used 10 hours and got £115 a month off my bill. My nursery works it out using a special formula so I couldn't work it out using the nursery hourly rate.

My nursery were happy to let me know in advance so I could order childcare vouchers for the right amount in advance.

I think each LEA set their own amount for funding the 5 * 2.5hr sessions

Ours (lancs) is £8.55/session - the nursery charge £10.50 for a 3hr session, so in effect the session costs us £1.95 (term time only nursery, so no sessions outside the 38wks)

I think it's supposed to be going up to 15hrs a week soon (Sept 10?)

There is probably stuff on your LEA/council website?

It does go up to 15 hours from SEp 2010.

So you could get 5 hours per day (if still 3 days) funded.

AS far as I know, nurseries cannot charge top up fees, so if the LA pay £8.50 per sessio, nursery cannot ask you to pay an extra £2 or whatever to be in line with their fees.

nurseries cannot charge a top up fee BUT they do charge for the hours you use between the seesions.....if sessions are 9-12 and 1-4 but you use nursery 8-6 then you still get charges for 4 hours a day.
Over 3 days you are allowed to use all 5 sessions and the amount the nursery get paid varies per county.

check your local council web site for exact amounts.

when is DS 3???? you are entitled to it from term after they are 3 so if he is 3 already you will get it now if he isnt then it will be easter before he is entitled.

Our preschool's fee is £15 per session. The LEA funding is set at £7.50 per session so when my child is eligible for subsidised funding, the fees will go down by half.

Thanks all. My nursery charges just under £45 a day for a 10.5 hr day so about £18 an hr, reasonable beleive it or not - more expensive as you head into town.

I suspect that I can't get this amount per hr from Council. My council - Cambridgeshire has no £ figures on at all on it's website, although the info is very good, which is why I thought I'd ask on here.

I've asked the nursery and I'm sure they will come back to me shortly just wanted to try and find out asap, so I can work out whether I can go back to work next year!

DS is 3 in Winter 2010, so a way to go yet, but my 9 months of mat pay runs out in April '11, so this is when I hope to go back to work. The funding will have kicked in, so I'm hoping that this will help me pay for baby number 2's nursery place and therefore I might able to "afford" to go back to work!

Thanks all, keep the info coming.
Sallypoo

Sorry everyone - babybrain has kicked in.

I get charged £130 ish a week for a 32 hr week which works out at £4 ish an hr not £18!

So a 5 hr session would be £21 so £7.50 off like Selby gets would give me a 35% discount - wow!

but dont forget its only for 33 weeks a year. some nurseries will devide it out for the 51/52 weeks a year you pay but some wont so you will pay more in non term times.

Unfortunately, our preschool session is for 2.5 hrs but they kindly let us in up to 30 minutes beforehand so let's say 3 hrs for £15. Looking at it like that - £5 ph isn't too bad. A subsidised session would mean that I would still have to pay £7.50 for 3 hrs. Ours is a preschool, not a nursery though with set morning & afternoon session periods. They are flexible though - my child can have lunch there as an ad hoc optional extra.