30 free hours

[mummytobabygirl17]

Hi all

From September my DS will receive the 30 free hours per week for childcare:

He currently attends nursery 2 full days per week and receives the 15 free hours per week and these hours are stretched over 52 weeks roughly 11 hours per day and pay £370 per month.

The nursery have confirmed the new rates per month from September and the bill is £398
they have advised that as he only attended 2 days they can only claim for 20 hours and spilt this over 52 weeks.
has anyone else has this? Our previous nursery for our DD used to stretch the 30 hours over 52 weeks.

I’ve read online many nursery’s stretch the hours over 52 weeks if the full amount each week isn’t used and the nursery haven’t ever mentioned before that he needs to be attending for 3 days a weeks.

thanks in advance
:)

Two things.

They can't use the full 30 hours for you because that equates to 22 hours per week (assume that was a typo you made about current hours) and the max able to be claimed per day is 10 (gov rules).

Secondly they are allowed to put their own rules in about when the funding can be used and that sounds like what they have done.

If your ds is only there for 2 days, they can only claim for 20 hours per week (10 hours per day), for 38 weeks and you would then be charged for any weeks outside the 38 weeks. If the nursery offers stretched funding over say 50 weeks, they could claim something like 15 hours per week and you would then be charged for the additional hours.

It’s up to the setting how they choose to offer their funded hours and what they charge for unfunded hours.

If they claim for more hours than you attend then they could be audited and need to pay the council back the unused funding. With 30 hours stretched you are probably eligible for around 22hrs a week but they can only claim a max of 10 hours a day so you will lose two hours a week stretched or ten hours if it’s unstretched by only doing two days.

You can only claim a maximum of 10 hours per day for funding so if you want to claim your full 30 hours you will need to do 3 days. But obviously your cost would go up as well for an extra day.