{"id":47924,"date":"2025-04-15T14:19:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T13:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/midsussex\/?page_id=47924"},"modified":"2025-12-15T11:39:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T10:39:31","slug":"early-years-funding-explained","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/midsussex\/early-years-funding-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Early years funding explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"47924\" class=\"elementor elementor-47924\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-227f160 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"227f160\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-277a0e9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"277a0e9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Funded early education and childcare is expanding. If you work and your child is aged 9 months to 4 years, you may be eligible for up to 30 hours of funded early education and childcare a week, from September 2025.<\/p><p>If your child is already accessing the 15-hour working parent entitlement, reconfirm your code as normal and your entitlement should increase to 30 hours from September.<\/p><p>If you are newly eligible, you will need to apply for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.childcarechoices.gov.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">code<\/a>.<\/p><p>Take a look at West Sussex County Council&#8217;s parent declaration form <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westsussex.gov.uk\/media\/20665\/parent_declaration_form_2024_2025_res.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">guidance<\/a> to understand what information your Early Years setting will need to claim your entitlement for your child.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funded early education and childcare is expanding. If you work and your child is aged 9 months to 4 years, you may be eligible for up to 30 hours of funded early education and childcare a week, from September 2025. If your child is already accessing the 15-hour working parent entitlement, reconfirm your code as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":47925,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"event_categories":[],"class_list":["post-47924","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-04 05:16:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"event_categories","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/midsussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/midsussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/midsussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/midsussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/midsussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47924"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/midsussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58687,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/midsussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47924\/revisions\/58687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/midsussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/midsussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/midsussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_categories?post=47924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}