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LottieLoo1 | 19:47 Fri 06th Mar 2020 | Family & Relationships
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Hi

My soon to be three year old qualified for '30 hours free' childcare.

Our nursery have just sent us a breakdown of costs and have stated that we would need to pay £380 pcm on top of the 30 hours.

I feel like this is very high and this would actually make us worse off financially than before the 30 hours.

We currently receive Universal Credit that pays 85% of our nursery costs, will we still get UC help when we get our 30 hours or is it one or the other?

Thank you
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How many hours does your child spend at nursery in a week?
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Hi Tilly

She currently is 30 hours, we plan to keep it that way.

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Where are the nursery getting their extra costs of £380.00?
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Hi Tilly

I would love to know myself, I've just asked for a breakdown as I feel it is a substantial 'extra' cost. We currently pay £765 pcm for 3 days.

Thanks
Gosh! That's a lot of money to find.
Have you seen this website? There might be some help for you on here.

https://www.justchildcare.co.uk/30-hours-free-childcare-faqs/#1533204627373-bb94a30d-edc3
the 30 free hours is only available during term times. However, as most children go to nurser throughout the year, the nursery annualises the 30 free hours, so it's actually a shade over20 free hrs a week. Im sorry i dont know about uc
this is from the gingerbread website "Once your child is 3 you can use a combination of universal credit and free childcare schemes to pay for childcare.

If your childcare provider participates in the 30 hours term-time free childcare scheme, you will be able to use that scheme to receive 30 hours of free childcare during term-time. If you need more than 30 hours childcare, you can pay for the other childcare hours by claiming universal credit childcare element payments to cover 85% of the costs, up to a maximum monthly amount of £646.35 for one child and £1108.04 if you have two or more children.

You would then pay for the rest from your own income, e.g. your wages."
does your nursery have a finance person? They'll probably know more

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