How can my child attend for the funded hours?

Parents must speak to their childcare setting about how the funded places can be taken at the provision and this must be made clear to parents.  Settings can offer funding as:

• 38 weeks which could during term time or across school holidays, 
• across the whole year which is called a ‘stretched offer’.

How settings offer funded hours is at their discretion within the following parameters.

• no more than a maximum of 10 hours in a day
• no minimum requirement
• between the hours of 6.00am to 8.00pm - Monday to Friday
• at weekends
• for the universal 15 hours, the entitlement could be offered over no less than across 2 days
• for the full 30 hours, the entitlement could be offered over no less than across 3 days