15 hours funding

Check your childminder will be accepting the hours
But yes you can still use the tax free on top and also it won’t be 15 hours a week it’s 15 hours term time about 11 a week on average..
they can charge a fee for food etc on top

You apply through the tax free childcare account :)

thanks! That's good to know! I didn't realise it was only term time

yeah all the ‘funded hours’ are term time only - I think they forget the majority don’t work term time only haha!
But obviously better than nothing 🙃

As Amy said apply through the tax free account! The funding is only for 38weeks a year but some childminders will stretch it (I’m in the process of setting up to accepting funded hours so do t ask me that yet 😂😂) so essentially you should only have to pay for 5 hours a week now, but depending on your local authorities funding rate it could be much lower than your minders hourly rate so they might charge a “consumables fee” which is essentially to make up the difference in the funded rate to the hourly rate. Obviously that’s a discussion to have with your minder as we all do things differently xx

I spoke to our nursery today and was told to apply when your reconfirmation of the tax free childcare account is due. Also no point applying for the code yet, as it will have run out by April