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All 3- and 4-year-olds are entitled to 570 hours of Universal Entitlement funded childcare per year (15 hours per week, term time only).
We do offer a small number of fully funded free at the point of access places, please contact the Nursery Manager for more information. Please note the fully funded places offered are on Mondays and Fridays.
Effective from 1st April 2024, any working family with a child over the age over two years old on 31 March 2024 (subject to certain Government legislated criteria) can access 15 hours a week, term time only, Working Family funding. Children of working families will then become eligible from the beginning of each term following their second birthday. Some children, whose parents meet certain criteria, may still be eligible for 15 funded hours, term time only, from the term after their child’s second birthday even if they are not a working family. This new funding runs alongside the current three- and four-year-old funding, 15 hours of which is available to all and a further 15 hours are available to working families only, again all are term time only.
The 15 hours Working Family funding will be expanded to all children over the age of nine months on 31 August 2024, eventually increasing to 30 hours term time only from September 2025.
15 hours term time only equates to 570 hours per year, 30 hours term time only equates to 1,140 hours per year which we stretch over weeks.
Child’s birthday
1st January to 31st March
1st April to 31st August
1st September to 31st December
When you can claim
The beginning of term on or after 1st April
The beginning of term on or after 1st September
The beginning of term on or after 1st January
All 3 to 4-year-olds in England receive 570 hours of free early education or childcare per year. We stretch the termly entitlement over 51 weeks of the year.
Free early education and childcare must be with an approved childcare provider. Eligibility stops at the end of the term before your child is due to start reception class.
