Free Childcare for Two Year Olds – By Little Blessings
If your child is two years old you could be eligible for free childcare for 2 year olds. You may be eligible if you meet one the following criteria:
- You are entitled to one of the following:
- Income Support
- income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)
- income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
- Universal Credit, and your household income is £15,400 a year or less after tax, not including benefit payments
- tax credits, and your household income is £16,190 a year or less before tax
- the guaranteed element of Pension Credit
- the Working Tax Credit 4-week run on (the payment you get when you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit)
- Or your child:
- are looked after by a local authority
- have a statement of special education needs (SEN) or an education, health and care (EHC) plan
- get Disability Living Allowance
- have left care under an adoption order, special guardianship order or a child arrangements order
You may have to pay for extra costs like meals or trips. Though, at Little Blessings this is all included.
How To Apply For Two Year Old Funding
Click here to apply (Croydon Only): https://www.cloudforedu.org.uk/oeye/croydon
You will need:
- Your name, DOB and contact details
- National Insurance Number/ Asylum Seeker Number
- Your child’s name and DOB
All other boroughs apply here: https://www.gov.uk/find-free-early-education
After applying you will be given a code. Bring this to a registered childcare provider, who will then claim the funded hours from the government.
You can use your government funded hours here at Little Blessings. Find out how below.
How To Use Your Free Funded Hours
Depending on the nursery you can use just the funded hours. Applying for 15 hours over 38 weeks. You are likely to have to use your hours within the nursery sessions, as opposed to attending when you want.
For example, if you are entitled to 15 hours, the nursery may allow you to do 5 hours over three days and not allow you to do just 3 hours over 5 days.
Any additional hours would be paid for.
However, at most private nurseries you will be spreading your funded hours throughout the whole year. Which means you would be entitled to 11 hours over 51 weeks.
This enables you to attend throughout the holidays, like summer and Easter.
At Little Blessings this is what we do. You can attend for two sessions a week, Monday to Friday, either 7:30 to 1:00pm or 1:00pm to 6:30pm.
Use Your Funding At Little Blessings
You can use your government funded hours here at Little Blessings.
The Two-Year-Old Funding entitles you to 11 hours per week.
This would include a range of healthy meals and a range of fun activities that we do throughout the day.
Our sessions run from 7:30am to 1:00pm or 1:00pm to 6:30pm.
Want to register?
Simply book a viewing today by filling out the contact form below.
(If you need any further help applying for the funding don’t hesitate to contact us)