2 Year Free Entitlement Policy
What is the Funding Entitlement at Little Blue Door?
Little Blue Door is a registered provider for the Funding Entitlement hours. The funding is received directly by Little Blue Door and enables you to receive 15 hours of funding after the term your child turns 2.
2 Aims
The aims of this policy are:
1) To support our vision to develop little minds.
2) To ensure access and entitlement to the benefits of high-quality childcare education on a fair and equitable basis.
3) To establish an admissions policy governed by a clearly defined criteria that may be articulated to our parents and other professionals.
3 How Little Blue Door operates the Funding Entitlement
Little Blue Door allows you to take your 15 hours across the week. Children have to be eligible for 2 year old funding and need to provide Little Blue Door with a code from Childcare Choices. It is the parents’ responsibility to apply for the funding code from Childcare Choices and to ensure that if they are eligible, the code is passed on to the Nursery Manager to apply the funding.
Please note you are required to reconfirm the eligibility every three months. If your circumstances change and you no longer meet the eligibility criteria you will fall into a “grace period”. For a short period you are able to continue to access their funded hours up until the eligibility codes period and date. Once the grace period has lapsed, your child will be unable to access free childcare unless you become eligible again or when you will be entitled to 3-year-old funding the term after your child’s 3rd birthday.
4 All Year Funding
Little Blue Door offers funding entitlement everyday of the week throughout 38 weeks of the year. Full fees are applied throughout school holidays; however, the fees are calculated pro rata taking into account the amount of funded hours claimed.
Children will receive 38 funded weeks and 13 remaining unfunded
Please note funding cannot be applied to Early Blue Doors (7.30am – 8am and a surcharge is applied of £6).
5 Fee calculation
Please speak to Little Blue Door management team to model your personal session profile with funding applied.
6 Eligibility (2 year olds)
A child born on or between:
Will become eligible for a funded place at the start of the term beginning
1st April to 31st August:
1st September after their 2nd birthday
1st September to 31st December:
1st January after their 2nd birthday
1st January to 31st March:
1st April after their 2nd birthday
7 What to do if my child receives ‘2-year-old’ funding at Little Blue Door:
Once you have received your eligibility code we will send you a funding declaration pack where you will specify how many hours you wish to claim. You will be required to bring your child’s passport or birth certificate for us to look at. If you decide to split your funding across two providers then you must inform us, as we will still require you to complete a parent declaration for both settings. You must ensure your child is registered and has started with us by the requested date in your packs.