{"id":16,"date":"2013-08-11T10:49:16","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T10:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.woottonplaygroup.co.uk\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2025-10-11T07:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T07:47:08","slug":"fees-and-funding","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.woottonplaygroup.co.uk\/?page_id=16","title":{"rendered":"Fees and funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FUNDING:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are registered for government nursery funding and are registered for Government Tax Free Childcare.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp; Universal entitlement for&nbsp; 3 and 4 year olds is 15 hours per week for 38 weeks of the year. Parents may divide their free entitlement between a maximum of two settings and we can help facilitate this. Any hours attended over the 15 hour free entitlement will be charged at the normal hourly rate.&nbsp; Children become eligible for free funding the term following their 3<sup>rd<\/sup> birthday and we will guide you through the process of claiming the entitlement for your child.<\/p>\n<p>Working parents of 2 year olds may now be entitled to 30 hour funding and working parents of 3 and 4 year olds may be entitled to a further 15 hours funing in addition to the universal funding.&nbsp; Working parents can apply for their entitlement via HMRC.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALL INFORMATION ON THE CURRENT GOVERNMENT FUNDING CAN BE FOUND HERE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beststartinlife.gov.uk\/\">https:\/\/www.beststartinlife.gov.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>FEES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For those parents that pay for their childs place we have a policy to keep our fees as low as is possible and therefore offer an affordable childcare option (we are a non-profit making charity).<\/p>\n<p>The current fee is \u00a36.50 per hour and \u00a36.50 for lunch club and there is also a notional 10p charge for each childs snack.<\/p>\n<p>We reveiw our fees every September and any increases are communicated to our parents\/carers for implementation from the following January.<\/p>\n<p>Parents who are required to pay fees will receive an invoice on a monthly basis and payment can be made by cash directly to playgroup, by on-line banking (BACS) or by the Goverenment Childcare Grant scheme.<\/p>\n<p>All the information regarding fees and funding will be explained to you in your welcome pack when your child starts at playgroup.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FUNDING: We are registered for government nursery funding and are registered for Government Tax Free Childcare. The&nbsp; Universal entitlement for&nbsp; 3 and 4 year olds is 15 hours per week for 38 weeks of the year. Parents may divide their free entitlement between a maximum of two settings and we can help facilitate this. Any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-full.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woottonplaygroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woottonplaygroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woottonplaygroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woottonplaygroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woottonplaygroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.woottonplaygroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":735,"href":"https:\/\/www.woottonplaygroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woottonplaygroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woottonplaygroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}