15 free hours from April

[Ubercornsdiscoball]

Our child will qualify for this from April and currently just does 1 day a week at nursery as that is all we need with my work hours.

Now nursery have stated they will only apply the hours to children doing a minimum of 3 days which is gutting. I see why they are doing it but it's so frustrating.

Anyone else's nursery stating similar restrictions?

It is quite common for Nurseries to not want to accommodate dc who only attend one day a week, yes (paying or on funded hours). It takes so many children a long time to settle when they are going 6 days between sessions even if they never miss.

It is also a lot more work to have 5 different children attending for 1 day each than to have 1 child attending for 5 days. That is often reflected in their charging policy too.

Our nursery has a minimum of 2 days per week even without any funding, plus funded days have a 'daily consumables' charge

None of the nurseries near me allow fewer than 2 full days or 4 half days - presumably for the reasons stated by @NewName24

I am in London and there are probably half a dozen nurseries within a mile of me.