2 year (15 Hour) Funded spaces

You can receive up to 570 hours per year  (15 hours per week) over 38 weeks

At Little Hubbers Nursery the session times will be offered on a Term Time basis as either

3 Mornings per week 

3 afternoons per week

1.5 days per week

We can also stretch this offer over 51 weeks with sessions being offered as –

2 mornings per week

2 afternoons per week

or 1 full days per week

Who is eligible? All working parents who work at least 16 hours per week and those parents who receive the qualifying benefits as laid out below. 

Your 2-year-old can get funded early years education and childcare if you live in England and get one of the following benefits:

• Income Support
• Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)
• Income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
• Universal Credit – if you and your partner have a combined income from work of less than £15,400 a year after tax
• Tax credits and you have an annual income of under £16,190 before tax
• The guaranteed element of State Pension Credit (support through part 6 of the Immigration and *Asylum Act)
• The Working Tax Credit 4-week run on (the payment you get when you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit)

A child can also get funded early years education and childcare if any of the following apply:

• They’re looked after by a local council
• They have a current statement of special education needs (SEN) or an education, health and care (EHC) plan
• They get Disability Living Allowance
• They’ve left care under a special guardianship order, child arrangements order or adoption order

3 & 4 year (30 Hour) Funded spaces

You can receive up to 1140 hours per year of funding. At Little Hubbers Nursery the session times will be offered as  either –

3 Full days per week on a Term Time basis

We can also stretch this offer over 51 weeks with sessions being offered as –

2 Full days per week

All 3-4 year old children are entitled to 15 hours  Nursery education. You will be eligible for 30 hours funded education if:

*Both parents must be working (or the sole parent is working in a lone parent family), and each parent earns a weekly minimum equivalent to 16 hours at national minimum wage or living wage, and less than £100,000 per year

* Working will include employed and self-employed persons in general families where one parent does not work (or neither parent works) will not be eligible for these additional hours

* Both parents are employed but one or both parents is temporarily away from the workplace on parental, maternity or paternity leave both parents are employed but one or both parents is temporarily away from the workplace on adoption leave both parents are employed but one or both parents is temporarily away from the workplace on statutory sick pay

* One parent is employed and one parent has substantial caring responsibilities based on specific benefits received for caring or one parent is employed and one parent is disabled or incapacitated based on receipt of specific benefits

Tax-Free childcare

Tax free childcare is a new UK wide government scheme to help working parents with the cost of childcare and will be launched from early 2017. As a Nursery we signed up to receive payments from parents using this account. For parents to apply for 30 hours free childcare they will need to open a childcare service account. This is a single online application for both 30 hours and tax free childcare. More information can be found on the government website – Google search Tax free childcare.