New Childcare Grants 2024 / 2025

We strive to provide competitive prices and excellence in childcare. All our children deserve the best.
We offer EEE grants to 2 year old 15 hours funded children, as well as 15 and 30 hours funded places for 3 and 4 year olds.

We will offer the new 2 year childcare grant of 15 hours for all working parents from April 2024.
Further more, we will offer the 15 hours grant for working parents of 9 months to 2 years from September 2024, and then continue to provide 30 hours funding from September 2025.
Our prices are calculated differently for sessional children (Babies and some Toddlers not funded), and for 15 hour and 30 hours funded children.

Session Prices (From 9th September 2024)

Price	Type of Session	Schedule
£301.50	Full Time Place	7am to 5pm (or 8am to 6pm), Monday to Friday
£68.00	Full day	7am to 5pm (or 8am to 6pm)
£51.00	Morning Session	8am to 1pm
£48.00	Afternoon session	1pm to 6pm
£11.00	Ad-hoc	Per hour for ad-hoc extra hours, but not regular use

Please do not mix the above prices with Grant prices, as the rates are different.

Bank Account Information

If you wish to make payment to the nursery bank account, please see the following:

Bank: Bank of Scotland
Name: Virdee Daycare Ltd T/A Willows
Sort Code: 12-24-81
Account: 0644 0596

Please remember to add your child’s ID, which is a 4 digit number. If you are making a deposit or a uniform payment, please use your child’s full name together with the word “deposit” or “uniform” as appropriate.

Tax Free Childcare

The nursery accepts payments using Tax Free Childcare. Please create your TFC account, and then search for “The Willows Day Nursery” to make the payment.

Card Payments

Card payments can be made on this website using the Tab “Enquiries & Forms” and selecting “Payment Form”. The nursery will send a receipt of payment by email once processed.

Funding Information

Do you have a 2, 3 or 4 year old?

Do you know if you are entitled to the working entitlement free childcare?

Do you and your partner, if you have one, work more than 16 hours a week?

Do you and your partner earn the National Minimum Wage, each less than £100,000 per year?

For more information and application, please visit: Funding Eligibility and Application.
You can check to see if you are eligible here: Check what help you could get with childcare costs
You can apply for 30 hours here: Apply for free childcare if you’re working
You can apply for Tax Free Childcare here: Get Tax-Free Childcare: step by step

If you are eligible, you can apply, you will receive an 11-digit eligibility code.

Before your child can take up a place at a registered provider, you must give the funding code, your national insurance number and your child’s date of birth to the childcare provider. They will check that your code is eligible for the particular term you want your child to start. In order for the provider to claim the funding, you must complete and sign the funding form from the nursery.
Should you become ineligible for the funding, at the headcount week you will be required to pay the nursery full fees.

Every three months you will need to confirm with HMRC (using your online childcare account) that the details entered on your application are up to date. HMRC will send email reminders for you to do this, but these can sometimes go into junk mail and can be missed. It is better for you to set your own reminders to do this, such as on a smart phone. If you do not reconfirm within the deadlines you will lose your eligibility, which means your child will not get the extended 15 or 30 hours of nursery funding.

The Deadlines Are:

• 31st December for Spring term (January—March)
• 31st March for Summer term (April—July)
• 31st August for Autumn term (September—December)

The deadlines are set out by HMRC. You must apply for and receive your code or reconfirm your code before these deadlines in order to be eligible. If you apply or reconfirm after these deadlines you will not be eligible and your child will not be funded.

15 hours Grant Funding

We have clear calculations for care charges for 15 hours funded children. The calculation is based on attendance and the total weekly hours. Session prices cannot be mixed with grant prices in the same week. We offer this grant over 38 weeks only. Meal charges apply separately to care charges. Parents can provide packed meals and these will be served for free. Please note that we are unable to cook or reheat packed food for children due to health and safety reasons.

All sessions are subject to availability and we may not be able to to offer the sessions requested.

30 hours Grant Funding

We have clear calculations for care charges for 30 hours funded children. The calculation is based on attendance and the total weekly hours. Session prices cannot be mixed with grant prices in the same week. We offer this grant over 38 or 51 weeks weeks only. Meal charges apply separately to the care charges. Parents can provide packed meals and these will be served for free. Please note that we are unable to cook or reheat packed food for children due to health and safety reasons.

All sessions are subject to availability and we may not be able to offer the sessions requested.

Grant Prices

PLEASE NOTE: We calculate grant prices using our own grant rates, and should not be confused with non grant prices above. Due to every child having different parameters of attendance, meals, and funding, it is not possible to list grant prices. Please contact the office for actual price for a child. You may use the Grant Eligibility Notification Form, to notify us of the exact requirements. Alternatively, you can use the Grant Calculator to obtain an estimated price.

Uniform Prices

We encourage children to buy uniform which helps them feel part of the school environment, prices are as follows:

Price	Item
£12.00	Polo Neck
£15.00	Sweatshirt