Nursery Funding

Here at Beaconsfield Childcare we offer the Early Years Funding for the
following funding streams:

• Eligible working parents entitlement for 9+ months old
• Eligible working parent entitlement for 2 year olds
• Dis-advantaged 2 year olds (parents who receive some additional
  government support)
• Universal entitlement for all 3 and 4 year olds
• Eligible working parents entitlement for 30 hours (3+4 year olds only)

Universal entitlement for 3 and 4 Year Olds

For the Universal entitlement for 3 and 4 year old children, this starts the term after they turn 3 years old. The terms run in conjunction with the term dates on Bucks County Council website.

Accessing the universal for 3 and 4 year olds funding is made easy for you, as we apply on your behalf to Bucks County Council each term. All we ask you to do is to fill out, sign and date one form (PPA-U) and bring
along a form of ID for your child (this must be done prior to a child
accessing the funding). A new PPA-U form needs to be filled out every
September, even if nothing has changed since the previous form was
completed, as this is considered best practice.

Eligible Working Parents Funding

Parents need to check their own eligibility on the HMRC website for all 3 offers that come under this category. If you are eligible, and obtain a
code, then this needs to be passed to ourselves, along with the NI
number used to gain the code, the child’s DOB, and your full postal
address. These are all needed to verify your code on Bucks online funding portal. All codes will need to be re-confirmed by parents every 3
months via your HMRC portal account, to ensure that you remain eligible for funding. The paperwork for this funding is either a form called a PPA-E (30 hours), PPA-2YOW, PPA 9MTHS-2YOW, which needs to be completed, dated and signed, and we would also need to see ID for your child, prior to them accessing the funded hours/sessions.

Dis-advantaged 2 Year Old Funding

If your child is eligible for the dis-advantaged 2 year old funding, you can
use their entitlement at our setting. Once you are in receipt of either a 6-digit code/letter from Bucks County Council declaring your eligibility,
please contact us to arrange it for you. The paperwork for 2 year old
funding is a form called a PPA-2YO, which needs to be completed, dated
and signed, and we would also need to see ID for your child, prior to them accessing the funded hours/sessions.

General Overview

The funding can be accessed by all eligible children attending either 38 or 51 weeks at the setting. All children are eligible for the full 570 free hours per annum and this is accessed via the standard offer over 38 weeks or the stretched offer over 51 weeks. The fees are still worked out monthly for both offers, with no fees being due in the month of August for 38 week funded children.

Children will be eligible for a maximum of 15 hours/week on all the
funding streams – except for the eligible working parent 30 hours where
30 hours is the maximum available – subject to attending 5 sessions or
more (attending either 3 or 4 sessions per week gets you 12.5 free
hours/week). One session = one half day (730-1/1-18:30). For the 30
hours, children need to attend a minimum of 3 full days over 51 weeks, or 4 full days over 38 weeks, to be able to use the code at our settings.

Please note that we operate a totally separate funding fee structure, that covers all funding streams, that cannot be directly compared to the
standard fee structure. This is because we are not allowed to charge “top up” fees (where parents are simply charged the difference between the standard fees and what Bucks pay us for the funded hours), as this goes against funding rules. Therefore, we have a totally separate fee structure for funding, and we are given autonomy as a private setting when setting funded fee rates. If you would like to see a copy of our funded fee structure, then please do ask.

Both our Admissions Policy and our Funded Fee Structure are subject to
regular audits to ensure they are LA compliant.

Please refer to our Admissions Policy for further information on the Early Years funding streams, and how it works across our settings.

If you do have any questions relating to the Early Years Funding, then
please contact Simon Bain our Group Business and HR Manager @
simon@beaconsfieldchildcare.co.uk.