nursery funding explained

[Carmel206]

Could somebody explain nursery funding to me please? Is it still in place following our recent budget? If I use only 9 hours a week will I still have to pay extra nursery fees on top?

Depends whether you are talking about private or school nursery.

School nursery is 3 hours per day (from Sept) for upto 5 days per week. There should be no other fees on top of that if it is state nursry.

Private nursery is different - you can get the equivalent of 3 hours per day x 5 days - so 15 hours a week 'free'. The nursery set their daily or session fees - so for example when my DS goes on a Friday - the set fee is £22.50 but I get two lots of £7.25 (which is the equivalent of 2.5 hours as you get now for the monring and the same for the afternoon), so I only pay about £8 for the day he goes - result!

androbob - thank you very much - mine is a school nursery so that is good news