Funding confused

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I am sending a 3 years old boy to a private nursery for 3 days a week.

They said they would stretch the funding throughout 50 weeks which I did not initially agree as we have regular time off during the term breaks, and I wanted to utilise 30 hours funding rather than paying extra money. But nursery did not support, instead they said we could have a term break by deregistering and re-registee again during the easter.

And I was going to send my son to a public nursery for two days in the morning to utilise unclaimed hours per week.

I was due to sign the contract and it was saying "Please note that even though your child's funding is being stretched over the year, your Local Authority asks that hours are claimed as "Term Time" over 38 weeks

This means the actual submitted claim will be 30 hours per week"

Does this mean that they use 30 hrs per week already? If so I may need to rethink sending my son to a public nursery.

Please advice. Thanks

I don't understand. All nurseries in the UK are private aren't they? Is one attached to a school? I guess that could be considered to be public maybe?

Perhaps I did not make clear as english isnt my first language and my understanding might have been different from the terms I used.

I meant public nursery as a school nursery.

It looks like they are claiming all of the funded hours and you are not able to split across settings.

If you only need term time childcare, I would recommend going to a setting that can accommodate your wishes. Most all year round nurseries will encourage you to stretch your hours over more weeks than there is funding. This nursery shouldn’t really be taking you on and off roll to accommodate a term time offer.

yes but school nurseries do not have a space for us to send full days.
so eventually the nursery would take all hours though we take breaks.

The nursery is very optimistic in its expectations of managing the local authorities admin of the funding whilst putting you on and off the system. I’m not sure the LA will be that supportive.

This seems very complicated. we have decided to send the little one for 20 hours to the nursery, 10 hours to the school nursery.. though it still seems unfair that the nursery still takes extra hours even though there are breaks, as you said.

Do you mean 10 funded hours at school nursery and 20 funded hours at the other nursery?

If I’m understanding you correctly the only was you can achieve that is if the other Nursery is giving you a term time offer.
between the two nurseries you will be receiving the funded hours you are entitled to and neither setting will be receiving more funding than they are delivering to you.

I could be reading this wrong though 😀

I think you have misunderstood what the nursery means by stretching the funding.

Instead of you having 30 hours over 38 weeks, you will have 22 hours over 50 weeks.

You don't have 10 hours of funding left over.

If you only want nursery care for 38 weeks of the year, you need to go with the school nursery.