Nursery code

I wish someone would explain this to new parents cause we didn’t know either. So the free hours is a separate thing to your tax free childcare account. The nursery you’re with will need the code you’ve been given so you need to send that to them and they’ll sort your free hours out. Just check your invoices to make sure they do include them. Then the account is what you use to pay the nursery when you get an invoice. It gives you the details to pay money into it, then you send it to the nursery once you’ve added them to your account as the provider. Just remember that the government pay 20% so deduct that from the invoice total before you transfer it over. I hope that makes sense but message me if not, happy to explain cause it took me and my partner ages to figure it all out!

And when I send the money from my bank to the childcare account, I just put the recipient name as “Tax Free Childcare” and it accepts it

Thank you he’s only going 10 hours a week so do I need to still pay money in? As technically if it covers £15 hours it should be free?

I have given nursery the code

Also if the nursery requires a £100 deposit on their first bill will I need to pay this or would this also be free?

I swear the 15 hours free is for every child. 15 hours if that’s the only hours you require and you don’t need to pay for that. 30 hours if you and your partner both work, that’s also for free too but you need a code for that. If you want your child in for more than 15 or 30 hours then you pay I presume?

@Amy hi you don’t need to pay anything because the government is giving 15 hours free per week. But if you’re unsure definitely double check with the nursery manager x

@Amy you will need to still pay for consumables The 15 hours are funded by the government not free So you will prob still get a bill from nursery Ours is £17 a day for food and consumables on funded hours (willl be different if you take packed lunch etc )

@Iqra💜 wait so if I am sending them for 15hours a week I don’t pay anything at all? My nursery showed me fees that I will have to pay about 200 or something

@Iqra💜 so what happens when the nursery gives me an invoice?

It's not free its funded and there's usually other fees you pay like consumables. You need to check with the nursery. Plus the 15 hrs is term time unless they spread the funding

Code for funded hours, tax free account for 20% top ups on all other payments. Every nursery charges differently but it’s highly likely you’ll have to pay extra for consumables, we’re charged £25 a day when using funded hours as it doesn’t cover everything. Some nursery’s only let you use a certain about of funded hours in a day. You need to check your nursery policy on funded hours. You can also only use funded hours in term time, some nursery’s let you spread it out so 15hrs becomes about 11hrs.

@Amy you pay this and any top up fees charged by the nursery. What we do is add the full invoice amount into the bank account and save up the money from the government. We paid £75 registration, that's completely separate to any hours. We use 12hrs as it's stretched funding across the year as it's open all year and pay £438 a month on top. Extra curricular etc

Funded hours aren't free ... Nurseries don't get enough from the government to cover costs so usually there is a consumables fee ours is £12 a day. As for the deposit we got ours taken off the first bill, so best checking with the nursery for both consumables and deposit. To pay into the tax free account there should be a reference number given

@Char you will need to use the name on the letter they’ve issued under unread messages in the gov tax account. There will be a pay reference you need to put in too

@Jay 15 hours a week is term time only. So if the hours are split over the whole year it's actually only 11 hours a week. So you'd have a bill for the 4 hours plus any top ups. Our nursery invoices are pretty well itemised. If you're not clear on what you're paying for you could ask to see an itemised one

Thanks everyone it seems I have done it correctly, there is no mention of consumables on the nursery letters, it seems it is £55 a day including the £3 for food which I think is a reasonable price compared to others. I provide nappies, wipes etc

Double check how your nursery allocates the hours. You may get 15 hours but if it’s like ours it’s a bit more complicated. Ours counts the full day whether your child is there or not from 7-6 (11 hours) even though she’s only there 9-5.

Yeah mine is pay by the full day no matter how many hours they are there for 🙈😫 I’m only going to be working 16 hours a week so I’m wondering if it’s even worth me going back to work at this point

I don’t think it’s starts until April so I may have a lot to pay until then 😂😩🫠