nursery, preschool and 30 hours

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Is it possible to use the 30-hour funding for a (private) nursery AND send my child to a nursery attached to a school (which is free)? Or do the funded hours get deducted from the school nursery time?
TIA - very confused at the moment

You can’t claim the same amount of funded hours twice. 15 hours will be taken from the nursery school and 15 from the private setting. Assuming it’s a day care provider you would then pay for anything above those 15 hours or meals if provided. I hope that helps.

One or the other....or half of both

It's 'free' because they are claiming the funding. You get 30 hours total but can use it in more than one setting.

thank you all for your replies - that makes sense and is what I thought, but the wording confused me.

School nursery always gets first claim on the universal 15 hours. You can use the additional hours at private nursery or childminders.

@jannier

School nursery always gets first claim on the universal 15 hours. You can use the additional hours at private nursery or childminders.

Parents decide how their funding is allocated. A common mistake of school nurseries I'm afraid.

School nursery is “free” because you use your funded hours for it. There may be an option to pay for extra hours if they’re available.

I'm afraid not @GeorgieTheGorgeousGoat I can send you are funding agreement if you like it clearly states and child attending school nursery will have the universal element of funding paid to the school. They don't want parents loosing eligibility and leaving school out of funds.
If it is shared between any other types of setting parent chooses.

@jannier

School nursery always gets first claim on the universal 15 hours. You can use the additional hours at private nursery or childminders.

That's not true. Parents decide who gets what funding.

@jannier

I'm afraid not *@GeorgieTheGorgeousGoat* I can send you are funding agreement if you like it clearly states and child attending school nursery will have the universal element of funding paid to the school. They don't want parents loosing eligibility and leaving school out of funds. If it is shared between any other types of setting parent chooses.

That's obviously specific to your local authority. That's absolutely not the case in our LA.

Sorry only just seen this reply....
Yes same as @snozzlemaid , that isn't the case in our LA either. As I wrote above, parents can choose and PVI settings are seen as equal.