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Registration Fee & One Month in Advance payment

When you accept a place at Happy Little Angels Day Nursery you will need to pay a registration fee of £100.00 and one month in advance payment if you are not taking the government funding. There is no Deposit, however, once you have decided to book your sessions you must pay in advance before your child starts thereafter fees must be paid by the 15th of each month. We will not charge you if you are using government funding.

Sickness and Holidays

Fees/meals will still be charged if your child is absent from nursery, please note that your child will not be able to make the time up due to their absence unless you have authorisation from our Nursery Manager.

If you have agreed that your child will attend nursery for 38 weeks (term time only) or 51 weeks, you will continue to pay the full month fee each month whether your child is in the nursery or not.

Payment/Late Payments

PLEASE ENSURE FEES/PAYMENTS ARE SETTLED BEFORE 15TH OF EACH MONTH

A 20% Charge will be enforced on the invoice with late payments. If outstanding payment is not paid by the 15th of each month, the child will not be permitted to their sessions until the payments have been settled.

Government Funding – 15 hours/30 hours – 38 weeks or 11 hours/22 hours – 51 weeks.

We are a Private Nursery and will accommodate if you are entitled to government funding, if you require further private sessions please contact the management team.

The funding hours does not include meals and therefore meals will be charged.

You are required to provide the reference number given by the government and must fill out the Croydon Free Entitlement Parental/Carer Agreement Form and to update your funding entitlement every 3 months.

Christmas Eve On 24th December, the nursery will close at 1.pm, please ensure that you arrange to collect your child/children.

The nursery will increase their fees to meet the high cost inflation from 1st April 2026 and on a yearly basis.

Bank Details

We allow Tax Free Childcare or Universal Credit Childcare to claim back some of the costs, The belows explain how this works in our settings

Tax Free Childcare

To be eligible for Tax-Free Childcare, you, and your partner (if you have one), must:

If you’re not currently working, you may still be eligible if your partner is working, and you get any of the following:

You can apply if you’re starting or re-starting work within the next 31 days.

Find out more about eligibility for Tax-Free Childcare on GOV.UK.

If eligible, you can receive Tax-Free Childcare for your child until 1 September after their 11th birthday, or until 1 September after their 16th birthday if they are disabled.

You can also claim Tax-Free Childcare alongside 30 hours for working parents – check the Combining Schemes page for more info.

Universal Credits

Universal Credit can help with the costs of childcare. You may be able to claim up to 85% of your registered childcare costs if you’re eligible for Universal Credit, in paid work or due to start a job in the next month.

You have to pay for your childcare costs yourself unless you are eligible for an initial up-front childcare cost payment. You then report them through your Universal Credit account and will be paid some of the money back in your next Universal Credit payment. You can get up to 85% of childcare costs paid back to you. The maximum amount for each assessment period is:

You will only get the money back with Universal Credit after the childcare actually happens.

You can claim Universal Credit Childcare costs for all the children you’re responsible for until the 31 August after their 16th birthday.

What can childcare costs cover?

Childcare costs can be used to cover childcare costs within ‘registered’ childcare providers.

Usually that means they registered with OFSTED, the Care Inspectorate in Scotland or the Care Inspectorate Wales.

That could include nurseries, preschools, after-school clubs, breakfast clubs, childminders, nannies and some holiday clubs.

Universal Credit will cover ‘reasonable’ childcare costs that help you work or get into work. That could include:

Childcare for changing work patterns or zero-hours contracts can also be considered ‘reasonable’.

For example, if you have to pay childcare costs so that you are available to work your usual hours, and then you actually get less work hours than you expected, that’s considered ‘reasonable’.