Fees, Funding and Payments

Kingswood offers ‘extended’ care for both Preschool and Nursery children which can be booked in addition to your child’s funded 15 hours. The extended care is booked in 3 hour slots. Extended care is dependent upon availability and needs to be booked in advance as a regular session so we can ensure we have enough staff.

Extended care can be booked from 8:30 – 11:30am or 12 – 3pm. If your child is staying all day, then you would also need to book a lunch session.

Please note our session prices are subject to change from when you apply. We are a school provision and cannot be used for adhoc one off sessions.

30 Hours Extended Childcare

We are able to offer 30 hours free childcare to eligible families. This enables your child to stay all day, if you meet the criteria.

Kingswood Nursery School is open 8:30am – 3pm for 38 weeks of the year. Your child can start attending 30 hours the term after their third birthday and once they have received a valid 30 hours code, whichever is later. Term start dates are 1^st September, 1^st January and 1^st April.

The eligibility for the 30 hour childcare is as follows:

Parents or carers earn or expect to earn the equivalent to 16 hours at National Minimum or Living Wage over the coming three months.
This equates to £120 a week (or c.£6,000 a year) for each parent or carer over 25 years old or £112.80 a week (or c.£5,800 a year) for each parent or carer between 21 and 24 years old.
This applies whether you are in paid employment, self-employed or on a zero hours contract.
The parent or carer (and their partner where applicable) should be seeking the free childcare to enable them to work.
Where one or both parent or carers are on maternity, paternity, shared parental or adoption leave, or if they are on statutory sick leave.
Where one parent or carer meets the income criteria and the other is unable to work because they are disabled, have caring responsibilities or have been assessed as having limited capability to work.
Where a parent or carer is in a ‘start-up period’ (i.e. they are newly self-employed) they do not need to demonstrate that they meet the income criteria for 12 months.
If a non-EEA national, the parent/carer must have resource to public funds.

Please note it is parent or carer’s responsibility to re-check their eligibility every 3 months and to confirm eligibility with the school office. Without this code a 30 hour place will be withdrawn after the ‘grace period’ has ended.

A parent or carer will not meet the criteria when:

Either parent/carer has an income of more than £100,000
Either parent/carer is a non-EEA national and subject to immigration control (and has no recourse to public funds).

What happens if a parent or carer loses eligibility?

They will receive a ‘grace period’ – this means they will be able to keep their childcare for a short period.
One the ‘grace period’ has lapsed, the parent/carer may be entitled to the universal 15 hour entitlement.
Any fees that go unpaid due to this will need to be reimbursed by the family

Follow this link to apply:

www.childcarechoices.gov.uk

If you have any queries, contact Childhood Support Services on 01992 555770 or email them here.

Working Families Funding

For children aged 9 months to 4 years:

Eligible working parents can now apply for 30 hours of childcare, from the term after their child turns 9 months until they reach school age.

If you currently receive 15 hours for working families, just reconfirm as usual and the code will work for the 30 hours offer, providing you remain eligible and your provider has confirmed your new attendance pattern for your increased hours.

Click below for further information or to see if you are eligible:

30 hours childcare for eligible working families

Click here for our Fees, Charging and Overdue Payments Policy

Kingswood Nursery School