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Little Puddleducks Nursery

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  • Home
  • Meet The Team
  • Sessions
  • Food
  • Our rooms
  • Careers
  • Gallery
  • TESTIMONIALS

Sessions

Sessions available

Full day: 8:00am - 6:00pm

This includes a healthy selection of breakfast cereals or toast. A seasonal selection of  fresh fruit, cows milk, oat milk or soya milk, a nutritious two course hot dinner cooked fresh on site and a two-course light evening meal. Please contact the office to obtain our full price list of sessions with funding . 


15 and 30 hour funding 


When to apply

You can apply for 30 hours of free childcare from when your child is 23 weeks old.

 

How to apply 

To apply you’ll need to set up a childcare account. 

If your application is approved, you’ll get an 11-digit code that proves you’re eligible to get free childcare. You’ll need to give this code to your childcare provider.


If you’re already getting 15 hours of free childcare

You’ll automatically get 30 hours of free childcare from September, as long as you’re still eligible. You’ll need to confirm your details are up to date in the usual way and give the code to your childcare provider.


Confirm your details are correct

To keep getting free childcare, you must confirm your details are up to date by signing in to your childcare account every 3 months.


Other help you may be able to get

As well as getting free childcare if you’re working, you may be able to get either:

  • Tax-Free Childcare
  • Universal Credit childcare


HMRC will check if you’re eligible for Tax-Free Childcare when you apply for free childcare if you’re working.


You cannot get both Tax-Free Childcare and Universal Credit childcare at the same time. 

 

What you'll get

The number of hours of free childcare you can get depends on the age of your child.


If your child is aged 9 months to 2 years old


Children aged 9 months to 2 years old currently get 15 hours of free childcare per week for 38 weeks of the year.

From September 2025 this will increase to 30 hours per week. As the deadline for applying for 15 hours of free childcare has passed, you’ll now be applying for 30 hours instead.

You may be able to get free childcare for more than 38 weeks a year if you take fewer hours over more weeks.

Check with your childcare provider to find out if this is something they offer.


If you’re already getting 15 hours of free childcare


You’ll automatically get 30 hours of free childcare from September, as long as you’re still eligible. You’ll need to confirm your details are up to date in the usual way and give the code to your childcare provider.


If your child is 2 to 3 years old and you get extra support


You can get 30 hours of free childcare through 2 separate schemes if both of the following apply:  

  • you’re eligible for free childcare for working parents 
  • you or your child get extra support

From September 2025 you’ll get: 

  • 15 hours per week through free childcare for working parents 
  • 15 hours per week if you or your child get extra support (you’ll continue to get these hours even if you’re no longer eligible for free childcare for working parents)

You’ll get these 30 hours for 38 weeks of the year. You may be able to get free childcare for more than 38 weeks a year if you take fewer hours over more weeks.

To apply, you need to speak to the early years team or Family Information Service at your local council. 


What counts as extra support

You’re classed as getting extra support if any of the following apply: 

  • you get Universal Credit, and your household income is £15,400 a year or less after tax, not including benefit payments
  • your child has an Education and Health Care plan
  • your child gets Disability Living Allowance
  • your child has left care under an adoption order, special guardianship order or a child arrangements order


If your child is 3 to 4 years old

You can get 30 hours of free childcare per week for 38 weeks of the year.

You may be able to get free childcare for more than 38 weeks a year if you take fewer hours over more weeks.

Check with your childcare provider to find out if this is something they offer.

 


*Fees are subject to inflation and will be revised annually every April *

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