What is a nursery grant?

Question about Early Years Nursery Grant...?

• Does anyone know exactly how much this is?? Ie: If you pay £30 per day to send your child to Nursery how much does the Grant reduce this by?

• Answer:

  it all depends what area of the country you are in. In essex we receive £8.74 that covers 2 1/2 hours. It doens't matter about the amount they receive, the grant they receive covers 2 1/2hours so they have to reduce your hours you take for your child by 2 1/2. ie if he goes to school for 5 hours a day you only pay for 2 1/2. If they are asking you to top up your fees for those 2 1/2 you are grant funded for it is illegal and you should report them to your LEA