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If you’d like your child to attend a Mama Bear’s Day Nursery you may be eligible for assistance with the cost through a number of initiatives. For more information, including contact details, please ask the Nursery Manager.
Childcare Vouchers
We accept vouchers from all the major and local suppliers, including Accor, Care4, B&NES, Sodexho, Faircare, All Save, Kiddi Vouchers, Early Years, Family Matters, Fideliti, Imagine/Mid Counties Co-op, Kids Unlimited, Busy Bees, Leapfrog, Bristol City Council (CIS), BAND and South Glos Council. Ask us if you have vouchers from another source.
Childcare element of
Working Tax Credit
The Working Tax Credit has a Childcare element that will pay up to 80% of your childcare costs, up to £140 per week for families with childcare costs for one child and £240 per week for families with two or more children, subject to status. Parents / carers must be working a minimum of 16 hours per week. |
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Early education places
The Nursery Education Grant for all three and four year olds is currently worth £1,601 per year in Bristol and £1,615 in South Gloucestershire. All three and four year old children who attend a Mama Bear’s Day Nursery and who are not also attending an alternative setting are entitled to free early years education, comprising five 2 1/2 hour sessions per week for 38 weeks of the year. The cost of this is paid by the local authority to Mama Bear’s Day Nursery and deducted from your nursery bill accordingly.
The grant is
payable pro-rata for fewer than five sessions per week.
Financial support for
young parents and students
Care to Learn aims to give financial support up to £5,000 per child per year to teenage parents (including dads), who want to continue their education or training, or are returning to education or training and need help with the cost of their childcare.
£32 million is also available through the Learner Support Scheme to help students with childcare costs. Priority is given to single parents and those on low incomes, and the fund can be used to support the costs of any registered childcare. |
