From September 2025, most working families with children under the age of 5 will be entitled to 30 hours of childcare support.

This means that:

• From September 2025, eligible working parents with a child from 9 months old up to school age will be entitled to 30 hours of childcare a week. 
• Like the existing offer, depending on your provider, these hours can be used over 38 weeks of the year or up to 52 weeks if you use fewer than your total hours per week.
• You can sign up for more details about the upcoming expansion, as well as how and when to register for support with childcare costs.

HOW WE WILL USE THE FUNDING

• We will offer the funding entitlement between the hours of 8.30am-3.30pm for term time only children and 8am-5pm for all year round children.  
• All year round  spaces will continue to be 8am-5pm, 8am-12.30pm or 12.30pm-5pm. We will continue to be flexible regarding the sessions you require but will expect each child to do a minimum of 3 sessions if they are available.
• Term time only spaces will continue to be 8.30am-3.30pm, 8.30am-11.30am or 12.30pm-3.30pm. If breakfast and tea numbers are low then there may be a possibility of picking these up. 
• We strongly advise that parents take their full entitlement from the start as there will be little chance of increasing later. 
• There will be no changes to the hours/sessions that children currently do with us.
• We will continue to charge for food at breakfast, lunch and tea times.