30 hours funded childcare

I am planning on taking my little one to nursery when she is one and I go back go work. I am just trying to figure out finances... how much do you get roughly for the 30 hours free childcare?

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It works out as roughly 2 days of private nursery all year round then you pay for a little bit on top of those two days for other things then full price for any additional days.

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If you stretch through the year it’s 22 hours per week. It’s not a set amount of money and every nursery charge different fees, some wildly different. Some have consumable charges/ early fees/ late fees etc and some limit the number or hours a day or the sessions you can use funded hours in so you’d really need to enquire with individual nurseries.

I’d also apply asap.. I had to apply before 20 weeks pregnant to get a place for my son when he turned 1.

For 3 days a week we are paying £280 after funded hours and tax free childcare. Our nursery doesn’t charge consumables or extra fees x

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It's completely depends on the nursery. The one I'm sending my son allows a max of 6 hours funded hours, regardless of him only going in 3 days a week. Another one I enquired at you could use 22 hours across the 3 day. (Alas they couldn't have spaces on the days I needed childcare) So I'll be paying £60 a day for the 1st one I mentioned.

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I’m confused what you mean by how much do you get? How much what?

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My nursery is just over 2k a month with the discount it's around £1500 you can also do tax free childcare and that drops are £130 a month off too.
My nursery is 52 weeks a year not just term time. My nursery is all inclusive no extras but you pay more for that per hour.

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My daughter does 30 hours a week in term time and 25 in the holidays. They do not allow us to stretch the funded hours.

We pay nothing in term time.

Full cost minus 20% tax free child care in the holidays. So out of pocket for 2.5 days we pay £160 a week.

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I was under the impression that the new rules that come into affect mean they can no longer charge additional fees and we can opt out

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Every nursery is different. Some nurseries spread it over the year some only allow it for term time. It depends what the nursery charges per hour as well x

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Mines spread through out the whole year and I pay £130 a month she does 23 hours a week .

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When stretched we get 22.5 hours a week and pay around £360 a month for 3 days a week (all day). She has all her meals there, uses their nappies and stuff. We send ours to private nursery.

We put £300 into the tax free account each month and it gets topped up to £360.

Many private nurseries also have some ‘unfunded’ weeks which make the month more expensive, we have an unfunded week in April and then another in December, so those months end up being like £600ish 😵‍💫

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My daughters so 9-3pm 5 days a week (30 hours) term time only. My 2 year old has hot dinners. I pay £2.25 a day for consumables and snacks each and hit meals are £2.80 a day. Works out my 1 year old is around the £50 ish mark and my 2 year old just under £100 including the dinners.

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I have both my kids in just for the funded hours on termtime schedule. I pay about £100 max each for them both a month for just the ‘ subs’ xx

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Depends on the nursery! Ours is open all year except bank holidays and Christmas so the funded hours have to be stretched to cover that. Our nursery also opens from 07:30-18:00 so the hours have to cover the longer days. Our nursery also provides all food, nappies etc so they charge for that. My 30 hours funded cost me £127/month for 2 days for reference

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