Childminder, funded hours

[runtownse]

Hi, looking into childcare for when I return to work. How is the 30 hours funding typically applied for childminders. Can this be used over 3-4 days? Or must it be split over 5 days?

Are you in Scotland? If you are, you can generally split the hours over 3 or 4 days, as long as you don’t exceed your weekly hours. I have no idea how it works in England though!

It is up the childminder how they accept the funding. They can have rules of the amount of days etc..... the only thing they cant do is have an artificial break in the day.

It depends on the childminder.

We use our 30 hours funding for 3 days (we use 24 hours per week) and stretch them over the holidays.

Yes ask tje childminders when you make initial enquiries and use this to help make your decision in where to choose.

Each provider will have their own rules. Some will allow stretched funding so 22 hours per week then deduct that from the total per week. Some will only allow funded hours at certain timeframes.