FEES & FUNDING SWANLEY

Fees & Funding

FEES

Please contact the Nursery for details.

Registration fee - £25 for all new starters

Funding

All 3 and 4-year-olds in England are entitled to 570 hours of funded early education or childcare a year. Your child is entitled to a maximum of 15 hours per week for 38 weeks of the year. Approved providers include child-minders, playgroups, pre-schools and day nurseries that are registered and inspected by OFSTED. Parents can choose which provider they would like their child to go to, as long as they have places available.
Working parents may be entitled to 960 hours of funded early education or childcare a year. Your child is entitled to a maximum of 30 hours per week for 38 weeks of the year. To find out if you are eligible to claim 30 hours, please go to https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk .

Please note that 38 weeks is how many weeks the Government pay us for your free funding not 52 weeks, therefore for ease of continuity we then divide this over 12 in equal monthly instalments. 

In addition to Full day Care, Dawn to Dusk Day Nursery also offer completely free Childcare sessions using the Government Funding 15 hours, there are also a number of limited 30 hour free sessions, please see Funded Pre School.

We offer a 3 hours free funded session during our morning session and 3 hour free funded session during our afternoon session, offering 6 hours of free funding per full day. 

Please find the following as examples:

To achieve full 30 hour funding a child would need to attend the nursery on a full time basis. Monday – Friday. 


Up to 30 hours

If a child attends: 

Example 1. 
3 days per week 

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Funded Sessions
AM 8.30am - 11.30am Yes Yes Yes 9
PM 12.30pm - 3.30pm Yes Yes Yes 9

Total 18 hours free

Example 2. 
2 days per week 

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Funded Sessions
AM 8.30am - 11.30am Yes Yes 6
PM 12.30pm - 3.30pm Yes Yes 6

Total 12 hours free

Example 3. 
4 mornings a week

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Funded Sessions
AM 8.30am - 11.30am Yes Yes Yes Yes 12
PM 12.30pm - 3.30pm

Total 12 hours free

Example 4. 
4 days flexi hours at 5 hours example 10.00am- 3.00pm

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Funded Sessions
AM 8.30am - 11.30am Yes Yes Yes Yes 12
PM 12.30pm - 3.30pm

For any flexi day session there is 3 hours free funding.

Flexi-Care

As a full-time working parent of many years I understand that the first sight of a nursery prospectus can be cost prohibitive, and somewhat inflexible. At least in my experience, late for work in the morning, nursery not opening early enough and flying down the motorway in fear of my son being the only one left there at 5.30.

I am delighted to say that at ‘Dawn to Dusk’ Day Nurseries we have gone a long way in ensuring that these situations are rarely encountered by parents/guardians, due to our 12 hour day opening times 7am - 7pm, therefore children are collected by happy carers, certainly less stressed than I used to be! We at Dawn to Dusk realise the importance of being flexible. Equally we understand that not everyone, necessarily, works 9-5, fulltime nor everyday. Therefore, uniquely, we can design tailor-made care packages to suit individual needs. (Subject to company policy and ratios).

Whether you work, or whether you don’t, providing you reserve regular session we can offer care from as little as 2 hours per day, (up to 6 hours per day), 2 days per week, from toddlers upwards.

The cost of our flexi hours is £7 per (between the hours on 9am to 5pm, with a maximum of 6 hours per day)
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