How nurseries claim funding?

Is it a private nursery open all year round ?

@Charlotte yes it is private and open all year round.

Funding is term time only, if you’re booking for a year round place, they could be doing it as sessions, to cover the year so you don’t pay over holidays- which they shouldn’t do, but I have heard of places doing it. If you have to pay over the holidays full price with no free sessions, I would complain! They are also entitled to inset days, that uses funded hours- not sure how many legally they can claim though

@Sarahjane my son is doing term time only. I have the eldest who attended nursery before and haven't been same structure of claiming. This is very weird even then manager tried to explain she couldn't explain properly just that they claim by sessions which doesn't make sense but I am going to let it go just because its only 1 hour.

You could report to them? I know it’s a lot of hassle for an hour, but an hour a week over the year, let alone multiple years adds up. And like I said, you’ll miss out on hours anyway when they claim inset days. (I wouldn’t complain about that though, as that’s when they get paper work done/ reports on kids done etc, I’m a teacher so know that for a fact.) but an hour soon adds up and your entitled to it.

There’s a nursery I know (mums a childminder who does the funding herself) that’s attached to a school- they got reported for taking too many inset days and so had to stay open longer in the summer as the parents were short what they were owed. They do go tough on this- and deserved as they are not paying for the nursery to take advantage, especially when some people are using those hours are poor income families, and can’t afford child care, because of them it helps strict regulation that helps all parents

@Sarahjane i spoke directly to manger. What i have gathered that they simply dont know maths and dont want to make calculations by hours. But at least they should clearly state in their policy the way they claim because next year I will be claiming 30 hours and as per session again i will be only allowed 28 hours so 2 extra hours will be written off. That's £20 a week and that means over 38 weeks I loose to claim an extra £700 which is a shame. Really annoyed

@Raminta if you don’t want to complain per se, query it with the local funding department. That will flag it up and get someone to investigate/ put the nursery straight! (Hell I would do it for you if I could!) But you need to do something £700 is a lot of money and think how much they’re getting if they do that to everyone!! I spoke to my mum, and she said as a childminder she would HAVE to carry them over, so the nursery HAVE to too! Technically this could be fraud.

@Sarahjane you're right. I was just thinking for myself but adding up all the children thats astonishing amount.

@Raminta Exactly. And like I said a query makes you look like a concerned parent not a complaining one. Though the funding department of the council should keep you anonymous