When does 30 hours childcare end in September?

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Hi all,

Have tried Googling this but can not find an answer, so wondered if anyone on here can help?

My daughter started school in September, and we had been using the 30 hours childcare in a private nursery until then. We spread the hours over the whole year rather than term time only. Her last day at nursery was 5th September, which I thought we wouldn't be charged for, as the official school fern dates for my area are 6th September, so to my knowledge we were still entitled to the 'free' hours.

Nursery have billed us for the whole day and are saying the new term began on 4th September. I'm not sure if private nurseries have different term dates? Can anyone advise?

Thanks!

*term not fern!

I'd imagine the onset days that would have been on the 4th would count as the start of term.

Though don't hold me to that as I'm new to this and find it SO complicated.

I always thought the terms started on 1st Sept, 1st Jan and 1st April. I don't think they go by school term dates as schools have a lot of holidays, they vary between areas and the holidays move around quite a bit e.g. this year my kids return to school after Christmas on 8th Jan when other years it has been 3rd Jan.

Unfortunately I think your nursery might be right on this one but hopefully you will get some more replies.

Do the nursery have their term dates on their website?

Thanks for all your replies.

No, the nursery don't have term dates on their website unfortunately.

It's 31st August the last date for the term.

It was the 31st August for us too

Each funding term starts on 1st: Autumn -September, Spring -January and Summer - April. The nursery would have claimed funding until 31st August & because your child is starting school they can’t make a claim for the autumn term.

Stretched funding ended Friday 25th August in my area. There was a week or so that wasn't funded between then and the start of school for our children leaving to go to school so any sessions they did then had to be paid for at usual rates.

Nursery funding dates are set by the local authority and don't necessarily match school term dates.

Runs out at the end of August in our LA. Terms run jan-mar, apr-aug, sept-dec.

Yes I also think it's 1st of the month regardless of term times.
I was gutted when I first realised this as my child's birthday was 4th April (during easter hols) so summer term hadn't started. I thought this meant we'd get funding for the entire summer term. Actually it didn't start until 1st September.

Thanks all, seems I need to pay up! Gutted!

This is correct.