Hi everyone.
My son has been attending Cumnor House nursery in Purley since April last year and has been taking advantage of 15 hours funding however I’ve read when children turn 3 years old, 15 hours turn into 30 hours.
Our nursery is however very strange about this - they’ve just emailed us this : „Unfortunately, the Funding given by Croydon Council is less for 3 year olds than 2 year olds, hence the higher invoice fee.”
I do believe they’re not sure what they’re saying as surely it’s other way round - 3 year old children receive more hours than 2 year olds. Also so far he’s been receiving 15 hours but now they’re taking this away from us as well saying that Croydon council doesn’t offer much funding for 3 year olds.
It’s all confusing and I feel like they should be honest and say they’ve opted out from receiving government funding instead of blaming the council for something that is clearly not true as allot of my friends children (Croydon borough) started receiving 30 hours of funding as soon as they’ve turned 3.
Anyone had a similar issue with their nursery? Is it even possible that 3 year old can get less funding than a 2 year old?