Nursery troubles...please help....

[smartestgiantintown]

Hi everybody...I realy need help. I have a doughter and she is now 3y4mnths and i am looking for the nursery for her. Can't afford private one(unfortunatly) so i have to look for the one with a free nursery places.Can someone please , tell me what am i suposed to do and do i have to pay per term and than they give me refund or is it automaticaly(their application to the LA). Thank you soooo muchhhh....

Have you got a local state nursery? Or would you be looking for govt funding for a private nursery?

Your DD is not far off the age for getting into a state nursery but I will assume from your post that you are considering a private nursery. What happens is that (assuming the nursery has nursery grant places) that the child goes to nursery for up to 5 sessions of 2.5 hours per week and the govt pays the nursery directly. This is only for a certain number of weeks per year. I think it is more weeks than when DS was that age now. So if you wanted DD to go all year round you would have to pay during the holidays.

Also some nurseries let you opt for two sessions in 1 day and you pay for the lunchtime element. So, for example, at our nursery the child could go 9-11.30 for free and 1-3.30 for free but stay from 11.30-1.00 to have some lunch and play, and you would pay a fee of about £10, I think it is now. So for £10 your DD would be at nursery from 9-3.30, which is obviously a lot cheaper than if you were paying full fees of £31.50/day. We are in Yorkshire, btw so fees in other areas might be higher.

HTH