Nursery Fees and Childcare Funding
Our Fees
We pride ourselves on our fair and transparent approach to nursery fees. Please Click the button below for details of weekly, daily, and session rates for our award winning nursery.
ABC Children’s Day Nursery is also delighted to offer government-funded childcare. If eligible, you could be entitled to up to 570 or 1140 hours of funded childcare, depending on your eligibility and your child's age, each year for your child. Please see more information below or reach out to us via the button below. We are here to help!
‘Tax-Free’ Childcare Accounts
ABC Children’s Day Nursery is an Ofsted registered childcare provider, which means we accept tax-free payment for childcare.
Tax-free childcare is a government initiative designed to help working parents with the costs of childcare.
Working parents of children aged under 12 can access Tax-Free Childcare by opening an online account, (through the government website, www.gov.uk/tax-free-childcare), through to pay for registered childcare. For every 80p that parents pay into the account, the government will top-up an extra 20p. Parents can receive up to £2,000 per child, per year, (or £4,000 for disabled children).
Tax-free childcare can be a great option for you and your family to save money on childcare costs. However, we strongly advise parents to ensure they have read all the advice in relation to what is best for them and whether they should move from an existing scheme. ABC Nursery will not be held responsible if your choice results in changes to your eligibility for other benefits or childcare costs support.
Childcare Choices
The government’s Childcare Choices website will guide you through your options for childcare costs support. It provides access to the application process for the childcare accounts and funding entitlement – make sure you are ticking the correct boxes for your situation.
Eligibility for funding hours is determined by HMRC, and parents should check their own eligibility through the relevant government website. The website Childcare Choices offers you the opportunity to compare what is best for your family.
Government Funding Plan
The full eligibility criteria are available on the government website. It is the responsibility of parents to check their eligibility through HMRC. As part of the application process, parents will be provided with an eligibility code. Please share your eligibility code with the nursery so that we can confirm your place with the Local Authority. Each eligibility code is required to be renewed every 3 months.
We encourage all families looking to take up funded spaces to enquire as soon as possible. We have limited availability and specific sessions may fill up faster than anticipated.
The Government has announced 30 hours funding entitlement to be in place for working families by September 2025. Please see the table below showing the delivery plan.
What does ‘free childcare’ really mean?
Government funding is intended to deliver a certain amount, (15 or 30 hours a week), of childcare across a specific duration of the year (38 weeks out of 52). Government funding is not intended to cover the costs of meals, other consumables, additional hours or additional activities.
The term “Free childcare” can be misleading, which is why we refer to it as funded early years education and care in our documentation below.
ABC Children’s Day Nursery Funded Packages
At ABC Nursery, we work hard with parents to find appropriate solutions that consider individual circumstances. We offer various options across full days, mornings and afternoons. Sessions can be limited to a handful of days a week or the full week. The table below summarises how we group our funded package range.
For details of our latest session availability and prices please reach out to our team.
Flexible Funded Early Years Education & Childcare Offers for All Ages
Government funding provides 15 or 30 hours a week across 38 weeks of the year. Therefore, funded hours equate to 570 hours or 1140 hours per year. When stretched across a full year, (51 weeks to allow for Christmas/NY closing), this becomes just 11.18 or 22.35 hours per week.
Many parents prefer stretching hours across the year. If you wish to attend the sessions of your choice over the whole year then our tables below indicate the fees payable based on the pattern of attendance.
Once your child becomes eligible for funding then we mainly offer this as an enhanced stretched offer over 48 or 51 weeks. We also have some limited places to offer over 38 weeks, although we do not offer 30 hours over 38 weeks. Where parents chose to access an Enhanced Flexible 15/30 Offer, over and above the basic entitlement funded provision, then there is an additional charge that covers additional services. These services include, but are not limited to, extra hours, breakfasts, snacks, lunches, teas, trips outside the nursery, parties for children, equipment or gifts that the children take home such as for Mother’s or Father’s Day and other such specific activities that the nursery buys in specifically for children. You are not obliged to take up these additional services and you can access your funded only hours at NIL COST over the 38 or 51 weeks as shown. Any additional hours and services outside our funded delivery are charged for and when attending all year round then we ensure your funded entitlement is accounted for on your invoice as a number of hours. This equates to your ‘free’ entitlement from the government, and the balance relates to the fees for your remaining childcare as shown in the Fees List, plus any outstanding balance carried forward.
In order to claim funding then parents must complete the ABC Childrens’ Day Nursery Flexible Funding Agreement and the Local Authority Funding Agreement.
Please see our Admissions Policy for further information.
Current Childcare fees:
Please contact us using the button below, where a manager will contact you to discuss your requirements further.