Child Care Fees | Kenleys Day Nursery

Flexibility

We enable you to take holidays as and when you need them! you just need to give us 2 weeks notice of time away from nursery, and your sessions (and fees!) will be cancelled.

We are currently unable to take on children who wish for flexible bookings due to being full in all rooms. Children who book with us will need to do so on a regular schedule.

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Funding and Savings

We accept all government funding for 15/30 hours of childcare. We accept payments from Tax Free Childcare, voucher schemes, college funding and most types of funding.
Please ask if yours isn’t listed here. If you are eligible for funded childcare for working families then please note that the funded hours come into effect the term after your child turns 9 months old.

How to apply for funding if you are working parents:
https://www.gov.uk/apply-free-childcare-if-youre-working

If you are not eligible for working parents funding:
Then in certain circumstances your child may be eligible for 2yr old funding as outlined
here: https://www.plymouth.gov.uk/free-childcare-places-eligible-2-year-olds

All children are eligible for at least 15 hours of funding the term after they turn 3. This may be extended to 30 hours if the family is working (please see link above)

Tax-Free Childcare

This is a Government scheme to help working families with their childcare costs. Parents are able to open online childcare accounts to pay their registered childcare providers directly and the government will add to the account. You can check your eligibility and apply using the link below

https://www.gov.uk/tax-free-childcare

How to take your funding

We allow you to take your funding entitlement in two ways: 15/30 hours on a term time only basis (for 38 weeks of the year – tying in with our term times) or 12/24 hours per week for 47.5 weeks of the year.

You are responsible for applying for the funded hours of childcare. You must do this well in advance of the next term starting, and must re-apply for it before the start of each term.

If there is a time that your child does not attend the nursery (e.g. sickness or holiday) we cannot make up the missed hours. There may be times when funding cannot be used
at all.

We are very happy to share the free childcare entitlement with any other provider that your child attends! You can only spread the funding over a maximum of 2 providers.
Our OFSTED number is EY429704 which may be required for these options.

Our Fees (from April 2026)

Our fees (without funded hours) will therefore be as follows:
Full Day rate: £88
Hourly charge (minimum of 5 hours per day) £10
Early start (7:30am) £7
(we can facilitate most 5 hour sessions, but some are limited in number so please speak with us first to
ensure the sessions you want are still available)

We enable you to take your funding in the following way:

0-2 year olds Up to 10 hours of funding per day between the hours of 8-6

2-3 year olds Up to 8 hours of funding per day between the hours of 9-5

3+ year olds Up to 6 hours of funding per day between the hours of 9-3

During your funded hours, we set our fees for food as follows:
Breakfast £1.50
Snack 50p
Lunch £2.50
Snack 50p
Tea £2

If you wish to add any additional hours over and above the funded hours, or over and above our session times, you will of course still be able to book in, and these hours will be charged at the “extra hour” rate – no food charges apply when you are paying privately. We shall allocate the funded hours to your invoice, and shall assign these hours equally over the days your child attends with a minimum of 5 hours being used per day

School aged children
We offer a before and after school club for Pomphlett primary school. We also run a holiday club for children from all primary schools during the school holidays. We offer a variety of activities for all aged children and do adapt them for the older children, though encourage all aged children to play together.

Our fees for this service are as follows:
Before School Club £6

7:30am – School time including breakfast

After School Club £8

School pick up until 6pm, including light tea

Holiday Club 8-6 £28

8am –6pm require own packed lunch and tea

Short Day 9-3 £18

Children require their own packed lunch

Daily requirements
Children will need to bring the following into nursery with them each day:

Clothes suitable for the weather (eg, wellington boots, sun hat, gloves) Spare change of clothes (perhaps more than one for children who are potty training) A named drinks bottle

Children who are not toilet trained will also need to provide:
Nappies and wipes

Babies will also need to provide:

Bottles and formula

PLEASE NAME ALL YOUR CHILD’S BELONGINGS AS WE CANNOT TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ITEMS THAT ARE LOST AND NOT NAMED

Registration
To secure a place with us, we ask that you complete and return Registration form,
Contract and an administration fee of £40. The other forms can be returned to us
during your child’s settling in sessions

This administration fee allows us to
- Provide show arounds for a second time for additional parents/carers or to re-
familiarise yourself with the setting.
- Provide administrative assistance to parents upon first entering the setting, including, but not limited to completing all necessary forms for registration, funding assistance, and booking of sessions.
- Provide two settling in sessions for your child of up to 2 hours long
- Initial care planning in conjunction with you
- Carrying out any necessary risk assessments or observations on your child

This administration fee allows you to

- Access any paid sessions including late collection fees, late booking charges or
any other non-funded sessions.