Funded hours with a childminder
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My childminder doesn’t spread the hours but allows you to carry them into the holidays if you don’t use enough hours. My son goes 9 hours 50 mins for 3 days a week. For the funded weeks we therefore don’t use 30 mins a week. She adds all these up and takes them off the bill for the next holiday week. Does that make sense? Maybe ask if yours will do that/ check the contract.
We don't use holidays as we are teachers but last term was longer so we had to pay for the full last week of term in December. I guess if she opened in holidays we would have to pay full for those too.
You don't have to use the full 30hrs, the childminder will only claim what you use
I have to have mine at home on half term as it would be way too expensive to have him with her all year. I also pay a top up fee he goes 2 days there and I pay 50 odd pound to her . 2 days at nursery and pay a 55 pounds top up fee to them which is also term time
@Marie mine used to do this but got audited so had to stop it . We now have to save our unused hours and she could potentially take him for another day in half term
My childminder does the hours term time early, I get 15 hours. I put money away each month into a separate account to cover the extra bits
The nursery my daughter is at she attends full time but they won't spread the hours. We basically worked out what we would pay for the year and transfer it to the tax free childcare account when we get paid so there is enough for the holidays without it costing us more at the time. I also work 22.5 hours (my daughter does 25 at nursery at the moment) so when we get to September we are gonna add an extra morning.