Earlybird Nursery

 

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VOUCHERS EXPLAINED

Nursery vouchers or nursery education grants are received from the West Sussex County Council Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership at the nursery on the behalf of any parent who qualifies. Your child will qualify for these nursery vouchers in the first full term following their third birthday.

The nursery vouchers are paid on a termly basis to fit with local schools, although we open fifty weeks of the year. These terms are Summer Term, Autumn Term and Spring Term, the dates of each of these terms can be found from the West Sussex website. Each of these terms is eleven weeks, so you will receive thirty three weeks of funded sessions per year.

After an audit for the Chief Internal Auditor for the Nursery Education Grant, 'the conclusion to be drawn , based upon the information provided, is that the County Council can be rest assured it is paying grants on the basis of valid and accurate claims and the money is being spent in accordance with the Children's Act and regulations'

In each term, we are asked to complete two ‘headcount forms’ which tells us during which week we need to calculate how many sessions each qualifying child does. A session is defined as two and a half hours of funded care, although our nursery sessions are longer. So, if your child does a morning or an afternoon session with us, this will be one session and a full day is two sessions. We are entitled to claim up to five sessions on your behalf, and if your child attends more than one setting, you will need to decide how many sessions you would like to claim from each setting up to the maximum five.

Headcount Dates are:-

autumn term 2005 15th June 2005 and 15th September
spring term 2006 12th January 2006

The summer vouchers to be recieved off the bills in May and July

Autumn 2005

Initial Payment - Octobers invoice

Residual Payment - Decembers invoice

Payment is received at the nursery each term in two separate payments, an initial payment and a residual payment, so each year we receive six payments on your behalf. Nurseries distribute this money in several different ways, but the way that we choose to do this is the way we feel that it is easiest and open to less errors. Once the funding is received, we will credit this amount back to you in full on your next invoice. A list is available here (link to page on web site voucher dates) giving details of the dates for head count and in which months you will receive your funding. You will receive six credits during each year.

If a child leaves before the headcount date, any payment made based on the estimate will be reclaimed when the second payment is made. However, if your child leaves after the headcount date you will receive the full amount for the term. You will be ineligible to claim at another setting for that term.

CURRENT FUNDING

1 session per child per term £87.20

2 sessions per child per term £174.40

3 sessions per child per term £261.60

4 sessions per child per term £348.80

5 sessions per child per term £436.00

EXAMPLE

Your child attend nursery one full day and two afternoons per week. Subject to there date of birth, you will qualify for four session (two for each afternoon and two for the full day). This means that you will receive £348.80 per term which is then paid as £174.40 as an initial payment and £174.40 as a residual payment.

If your child starts school on a part time basis, and then to a nursery in the afternoon, we will be unable to claim any vouchers on your behalf as the vouchers will be paid directly from the council to the school.

Whilst this all may sound a bit complicated, the whole process is administered by the nursery and all you will be asked to do is to complete a short form, giving your child’s details and supplying a copy of his/her birth certificate which we need to photocopy, the rest is down to us.

If you need to ask any further questions, please contact us or alternatively contact:

The Children’s Information Service
St James Campus
St James Road
Chichester
PO19 7HA
(01243 777807)



CURRENT FUNDING

1 session per child per term £87.20

2 sessions per child per term £174.40

3 sessions per child per term £261.60

4 sessions per child per term £348.80

5 sessions per child per term £436.00

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