Breaks for nursery with Funded Hours
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Our nursery takes children all year round except 2 weeks over Christmas (we still pay full price for these weeks) but it’s a private nursery. We can also only use the funding for 11 hours a week, if we used the full 15 it would only be for 38 weeks a year. We pay full price for the hours outside of this and there is a consumables charge for the ‘free’ hours also x
Could it be because the funded hours are term time only? So like when the schools have time off so do those children? That would explain the bigger breaks. Different nurseries do it differently. Ask about stretching it for the full year so it’d come out as 11.5 hrs (I think) per week
Thank you all!! That makes a lot of sense, I will ask!
I think they generally have to same time off as schools but can vary. So my daughter had 4 weeks off nursery for Christmas rather than the normal 2 weeks. Apparently its just how it falls
Mine spreads it over the year so we get 11h a week
If you don't pay at all the nursery follows the calendar of a school. So they gave half term. You can Google the school calendar in advance You can top up the hours and days you need by speaking with your nursery
We’re just visiting nurseries now and it seems some are full time 8am-6pm and run all year round but others follow school hours 8/9am-3pm and only run during term time so they have quite a bit of time off.