Funding
Government funding may be available for your child9 Months
If you live and work in England you may be entitled to 30 hours funded childcare support from the term after your child turns 9 months old, until they start school for 38 weeks of the year.
To access this, you and your partner must meet specific criteria. You can find out if you are eligible by visiting https://www.gov.uk/free-childcare-if-working/check-youre-eligible
Age 3-4
All 3 and 4-year-olds who live in England are entitled to 15 hours universal funded childcare
support irrespective of income levels, benefit status, or family circumstances, from the term after
your child’s 3rd birthday, for 38 weeks of the year.
Funding Hours
For children attending all year, funding may be stretched over the whole year. The maximum number of hours claimed in a year will be 570 hours for (15 hours per week) or 1140 hours (for 30 hours per week).
If funding is stretched, this will equate to 11.4 hours per week for the universal funding or 22.8 hours per week for the extended funding.
If additional or ad hoc hours are taken, over the entitlement of funded hours, normal fees will apply.
Additional Charges
We apply an additional charge which covers all extras provided at Dragonflies over and above the provision of high quality, flexible childcare. This includes:
• All meals and snacks
• Consumables
• Forest School & outdoor woodwork sessions
• PE & Yoga Sessions in the village hall (including a fortnightly visit from Joyful Journey’s yoga coach)
• Monthly mobile farm visit from Cheery and Chipper Farm Play
• Sports skills sessions
• Increased staff ratios and quality of staff
• Additional services which serve to increase the quality of provision (eg All staff paediatric
first aid trained/ Millie’s Mark accreditation, Makaton training, CPD projects etc)
Supplementary Charge
Half Day – £14.00
School Day – £17.00
Full Day – £19.00
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.
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.