Fees & admissions

Our admissions policy is designed to be clear, comprehensive and fair. We welcome children and staff from all ethnic origins, religious backgrounds, gender and those who may have special needs. We do, however, reserve the right to refuse entry or placement if we believe this will be detrimental to the care and wellbeing of your child, or the children in our care.

We have a booking system, which operates on a first come first served basis. It may also be necessary to put your child on our waiting list; however, we endeavour to place all children as soon as possible.

We aim to work with you to best meet your childcare needs; to help us to do this we will ask you to complete pre-admission documents such as a care plan for your child, which identifies needs, likes, dislikes and a range of information designed to help us settle your child into nursery life. All information supplied by parents is treated in the strictest confidence.

We feel that children settle in much easier and enjoy their time in the nursery so much more when they feel part of a group. Therefore we offer spaces for three full days per week or more.

We offer Opt In and Opt Out option where you can choose whether to use funded hours only or opt in for full day wrap around care.

We charge an application handling fee of £60.00 for a Opt In place on our waiting list. A registration fee of £120.00 will be charged once the Opt In place is offered and accepted. We recommend putting your child on a wating list in the first few months from birth. Opt Out option is not subject to waiting list or registrations fees.

We are offering physical viewings over the weekend.

Don’t forget that there are many sources of financial assistance with nursery fees such as EYFE (funded places for 9 - 23 months, 2, 3 and 4 year olds), tax free childcare, student funding, special needs assistance and tax credits, Workplace Nursery Benefit, TEDs group and Computershare vouchers. Please see the Childcare Choices website for more information.

We offer Opt In and Opt Out option where you can choose whether to use funded hours only or opt in for full day wrap around care.

As we are open during school holidays, we stretch 38 weeks of government funding over 49 weeks that we remain open in the year. Therefore, those who are entitled to 15 hours of funding, will be offered 11.63 per week of funded hours and 23.36hrs per week for 30 funded hours’ eligibility. Parents will be asked to pay the voluntary contribution for meals, consumables and outsourced classes. Please refer to the tables below that clearly indicate the monthly amount to be paid after deducting the government support hours.

The term dates for the purposes of determining eligibility are as follows:

• 1st September – 31st December

• 1st January – 31st March

• 1st April – 31st August

Please note that the funding is only for actual days attended therefore funding cannot be attributed in lieu of notice or absence. Funding is provided to ABC Studio Childcare for the place, therefore if a child leaves mid-way through a charging period, the remaining funding will be used to provide funded hours for a child who then joins the setting (the funding is not attached to a particular child).  You will be asked to complete and sign a Southwark Parent Agreement and we will then apply for the funding on your behalf when they become eligible.

Please call us to discuss the Early Years Free Entitlement for children aged under 2, 2, 3 and 4 years old.

The Nursery is open for 49 weeks of the year (closing only for 1 week at Christmas and 1 week in August).  The year will be split into 12 equal invoice periods.

We only offer full day sessions. Our core hours are 8.30am-6pm, in which we offer a broad and balanced curriculum and 2 snacks with hot lunch and hot/cold tea.

5% discount is offered for siblings

Session: 8.30AM – 6PM
Minimum number of sessions per week: 3

After hours care is available at an extra cost and are subject to availability.

We accept children as young as 15-18 months of age as long as they are confident walkers.

Age 2 fees:

Age 3-5 fees: