Nursery free hours

You can use one day but the nursery hours only run 9-3 in most nurseries so you pay the hours outside of that you also will probably get charged for food and sometimes nappies so “free” is misleading their more like funded/discounted hours

My nursery I work at and take my son to runs 7:30 until 6 and we have him booked in for 2 days where he’s there for a full day and a half day. I’m not to sure about going one day but I assume that will be down to your choice Be careful as Many nursery’s do add a consumable fee on because if they relied on funding then it wouldn’t pay staff wages so we pay £12 towards meals for the full day and then £6 for his half a day. So it’s more like a normal rate with your funded hours discounted off. We had many parents shocked at this because the government emphasised the free side of it x

I’m so confused about how it all works lol

My daughter attends two full days and gets 11 hours of funded hours out of the 15. One day I get 7.5 hours funded and the other 3.5 hours x

So are we able to kind of choose the hours to then usually? ( I know each nursery is different) Example- 3 hours a day mon-Friday

It will depend on the nursery- some nurseries do a minimum such as 2 days. My girl goes 3x afternoons (1-6) which while she is in the baby room is totally funded (we close to put her in all year round so have stretched her hours so we do may a bit each month to cover the holidays) But from jan when she moves into a bigger room we will get charged a daily top up of £10 this is for food and consumables.