funding explained

Information on Government funding

As many parents get confused about how the Government funding works we have added this page to help parents realise how easy it is to claim the funding for their child.

You claim your child's free sessions through us as we receive all the claim forms.
As we receive the funding forms from the Government we will require a parent's signature and some form of identification before we can claim. We will inform you in plenty of time when this is needed.
Your child has to be three years old at the beginning of a term to receive funding for that term. For example; Hayley is three years old on 28th July 2006, in September 2009 she will be funded until she leaves for primary school.
A child can claim upto five 21/2 hour sessions a week from us, with up to 2 of those sessions in one day. This will be increasing to three hour sessions in September 2010.
The funding can be split between two or three settings.
It may be difficult to increase your child's sessions in-between terms, when funding will be applied for again. There are three terms a year, September to Christmas, Christmas to Easter, Easter to Summer Holiday.