Mottingham Hall Nursery

Funding information

The funding streams available at Our Setting.

Childcare Funding

Together for 2s (TF2YO)

This funding streams is based on economic, DLA, CLA, NRFP or EHCP criteria. Eligibility for the funding stream is checked by the parent through the Bromley website and confirmed in Sentinel.

2-Year-old funding for working families
(2YOW)

This is up to 570 hours of funded childcare for working parents who meet the eligibility criteria. This is applied for by the parent through HMRC.

3 & 4 YO 15 Universal funding

Every 3 and 4-year-old child is entitled to 570 hours of universal funded early education and childcare per academic year

3 & 4 YO 30 Extended (30 hours)

Some 3 and 4-year-olds in working families qualify for an extended funding option, providing an additional 570 hours. This results in a total of 1,140 hours, often referred to as 30 hours funding. Get free childcare if you're working: step by step - GOV.UK

Please note:

Government funding is intended to deliver 15 or 30 hours a week free, high quality, flexible childcare. It is not intended to cover the costs of meals, other consumables, additional hours and services. Parents are not required to contribute towards the minimum entitlement session, but fees will apply for any services or childcare that is additional to the free hours. (At Mottingham Hall for children a consumable cost applies. Please contact us for our funding offer details- funding@mottinghamhallforchildren.co.uk.

Invoice:

Your free entitlement hours will not be shown as a cost on your invoice, it will show that you have been charged £0.00 for your free hours. However, for additional and consumables there will be a monthly charge. The code of practice states that parents can access as little or as much of the minimum entitlement at more than one provider, but at a maximum of two providers. If you do not want to pay for food, consumables or additional services please email funding@mottinghamhallforchildren.co.uk for further information on how this will be offered.

Our stretched offer

A setting will have their yearly opening weeks i.e., the number of weeks in the year that a setting is open for business. Our setting is open for 51 weeks of the year.

For some settings e.g., a term time nursery their funded weeks may be the same as their opening weeks e.g., 38 weeks of opening and 38 weeks of funding. This option may suit some families better.

However, a day nursery like ours opens for 51 weeks which means for our parents to get funding every month of the year we ‘stretch’ the funding.

For Example for 15 hours this works out as:

570 funded hours each year. To Stretch this, we would use the calculation 570/51 = 11.17

You may then be entitled to another 570 if you are entitled to 30 hours. This is 1140 hours.

For example, for us 1140 / 51 = 22.35 funded hours per week

At Mottingham Hall for Children we allocate up to 10 hours of funding per day.

Our Policies

Mottingham Hall for Children’s Admission Policy

Ofsted Number: EY474098

We operate an inclusion and equality policy and ensure that all children have access to childcare places and services irrespective of their gender, race, disability, religion, belief, or sexual orientation of parents. Providing government funded places for eligible Early Years children.

Mottingham Hall for Children has a waiting list for requested spaces. Spaces are offered on a date applied basis to the next aged appropriate child for the room we have a space for.

The nursery requires a refundable deposit payable once spaces have been offered and accepted. This deposit is

Refunded at the end of month 3 from your child’s start date, unless you attend privately also.
Refundable deposit required Part time £350.00.
Refundable deposit required Full time £500.00

Prior to your child attending our setting, you must:

Provide a copy of your child’s birth certificate.
Complete and sign a Parent Contract.

All funded sessions are in line with the Government’s Statutory Guidance and Local Authority requirements.

When you register your child for their funded place, we will discuss your needs, and as far as possible with availability and staffing arrangements we will accommodate your wishes.

You are not obliged to give us notice for the funded hours however, we respectfully ask that you give as much notice as possible whilst also paying due regard to our notice period for non-funded hours. Your child may lose their funded entitlement if they have three consecutive weeks of absence in any one term.

Please contact funding@mottinghamhallforchildren.co.uk for more information on our funded offer.