Funding
Delivery of Early Years Funding
At The little Kew nursery, we offer funded places to eligible 9 months-4 years old children and have availability for more than 10 children
Funding is available term time only, parents can either have a term time only place or pay for the days during the holidays. We are flexible with the delivery of the funded hours 15 or 30 free hours a week. Parents are not charged for any extras during these hours, the lunch £5 a day & £3 a day for consumables is a optional payment. If a parent opts out of the optional payments children will still be given lunch and still be included in the extra curriculum activities.
Where any EYFE funding (Universal 15 Hours or Extended 30 Hours) is not received by the Nursery (in whole or in part), or the application rejected by the local authority for whatever reason, Parents are responsible for paying all amounts due to the Nursery.
Where a funded place is agreed to commence midway through a term and funding has been allocated and paid to another provider prior, it is the Parents’ responsibility to obtain a ‘Notification of Change’ form from the previous provider so that funding can be applied to their child’s nursery fees for the remainder of the term at The little kew nursery. In the absence of this arrangement it will be the parents’ responsibility to pay the requisite full fees.
Universal Funding
All 3 and 4-year-old children of qualifying age are entitled to a Universal Entitlement place of up to 15 hours a week for 38 weeks of the year during term time, regardless of their family circumstances, income level or whether they are working. Children become eligible for a funded place from the first school term after their third birthday and remain eligible up until the term after their fifth birthday or when they start a school Reception Class place, whichever is the sooner.
Funding for 2-Year-Olds
Some 2-year-olds are eligible for 15 hours per week, if on a low income, receiving Disability Living Allowance, in care, or previously in care and adopted.
Extended Free Entitlement Funding (FE
Provided they are eligible working parents of 3 and 4 year old children can claim 15 hours Extended Free Entitlement funding in addition to 15 hours Universal Funding, bringing the total to 30 Hours funding.
Working Parents Entitlement(WPE)
9 months-3 years old children become eligible to receive a total of 30 hours funding from the start of the next full term after turning 9 months old or following their second or third birthdays. For example, a child born between:
1st January and 31st March will be eligible for the Free Entitlement from the 1st April.
1st April and 31st August will be eligible for the Free Entitlement from the 1st September.
1st September and 31st December will be eligible for the Free Entitlement from the 1st January.
In order to claim Funding Entitlement:
Both parents are working (or the sole parent is working in a single-parent family). This includes parents who are employed and self-employed.
Each parent earns a weekly minimum equivalent to 16 hours at national minimum wage, and less than £100,000 per year.