Funding

Government funding may be available for your child

9 Months

Working Families (9 months to 4 years): Eligible working parents can claim up to 30 hours per week (1,140 hours/year)

Disadvantaged 2-year-olds: Certain 2-year-olds are eligible for 15 hours if they meet specific criteria (e.g., in receipt of additional support).

You can find out if you are eligible by visiting https://www.gov.uk/free-childcare-if-working/check-youre-eligible

Age 3-4

Universal Offer: All 3 and 4-year-olds are entitled to 15 hours per week (570 hours/year).

Funding Hours

Structure: Funding is for 38 weeks (term time) per annum and can be used from the term after the child turns eligible age.

You can find out if you are eligible by visiting https://www.gov.uk/free-childcare-if-working/check-youre-eligible

For children attending all year funding may be stretched over the whole year, this will equate to 11.4 hours per week for 15 hours funding or 22.8 hours per week for the 30 hours funding.

The 15 or 30 hour funding can be taken over any sessions to cover the full cost of that session. The additional charge that parents will then be asked to pay are as follows:

Session	Breakfast £3.50	AM Snack £2	Lunch £5	PM Snack £2	Tea £4.50	Non – consumables £1	Extra-Curricular activities £2	Total
08.00- 18.00	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	£20
08.00- 17.00	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	£20
08.00- 16.00	X	X	X	X		X	X	£15.50
08.00- 13.00	X	X	X			X	X	£13.50
09.00- 18.00		X	X	X	X	X	X	£16.50
09.00- 17.00		X	X	X	X	X	X	£16.50
09.00- 16.00		X	X	X		X	X	£12

Additional Charges

The 15 or 30 hour funding can be taken over any sessions to cover the full cost of that session. The additional charge that parents will then be asked to pay are as follows:

Parents can use the 15 or 30 hour funding to cover any sessions and the full cost of the session, these sessions include the additional charges above if you select this option.

Should you choose to opt out of paying the additional charge:

If you would like a fully funded place without the additional charge Dragonflies Nursery can offer this option however, at every session your child attends the setting fully funded the parent would need to provide:

Milk
Breakfast – Wholegrain hoops, Weetabix, rice crispies
Fruit for morning snack – Only apple, banana, orange or strawberries, precut.
You will need to provide a lunchbox, dinner box, unfortuantly we do not have a refrigerated space to store lunch box or dinner boxes. This would need to be arranged with the nursery prior to a space being offered and accepted
Afternoon snack Veggie sticks etc. Any lunch / dinner or snacks provided will need to adhere to our strict allergy list as we have staff and children with food allergies.
Please note we cannot reheat any food due to health and safety policies.
Should you wish to provide your own meals and snacks, see costings above.
Childs sheet and blanket (sent home weekly to wash)

Should you choose not to pay the additional charge your child will not have access to the extracurricular activities and experiences including but not limited to

Joyful Journeys
Cheery and chipper mobile farm
Let it glow baby sensory sessions
PE sessions
Celebrations and Parties events
Cooking activities
Weekly forest School & Outdoor Woodwork Sessions with a level 3 trained forest school leader
Consumable resources

For full details please view our website via Desktop.

Sessions & Fees

Childcare Choices

TAX FREE CHILDCARE SCHEME

To qualify, parents will have to be in work, and each earning at least £115 a week and not more than £100,000 each per year
For every 80p you or someone else pays in, the government will top up an extra 20p
The government will top up the account with 20% of childcare costs up to a total of £10,000 – the equivalent of up to £2,000 support per child per year (or £4,000 for disabled children)
.
The scheme is available for children up to the age of 12 so can be used for before and after
school care as well as nursery care.

Any eligible working family can use the Tax-Free Childcare scheme – it doesn’t rely on employers
offering it.

Childcare choices

Support with Childcare

Employer Voucher Scheme

We accept vouchers from most Employer Voucher Providers. Please advise us if you intend to use these vouchers.

Voucher payments must be set up so that they are paid in advance of the month they are being used to pay. Many employers pay their staff at the end of the month and thus if the voucher is not received in advance you will become in arrears with your payments and attract a late payment fee.

It is your responsibility to keep track of your voucher payments and ensure that they are being paid as expected.

We allow some flexibility for payment of termly invoices with vouchers, as the term period will often cover two months. As long as the second voucher has been received by a week before the start of the next term a late payment fee will not apply.

Tax Free Childcare Scheme

To qualify, parents will have to be in work, and each earning at least £115 a week and not more than £100,000 each per year.

For every 80p you or someone else pays in, the government will top up an extra 20p.

The government will top up the account with 20% of childcare costs up to a total of £10,000 – the equivalent of up to £2,000 support per child per year (or £4,000 for disabled children).

The scheme is available for children up to the age of 12 so can be used for before and after school care as well as nursery care.

Any eligible working family can use the Tax-Free Childcare scheme – it doesn’t rely on employers offering it.