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BIG CHANGES TO FREE CHILDCARE COMING IN SEPTEMBER 2025

Childcare Choices: Get the help that fits your family, so you can juggle work and life

Early Years childcare support is expanding.   

From September 2025, 15 hours for working families with children under 3 will expand to 30 hours, meaning eligible working families can now apply for 30 hours of childcare from the term after their child turns 9 months until they reach school age.  

If you currently receive 15 hours for working parents, just reconfirm as usual and the code will work for the 30 hours offer in September, providing you remain eligible. 


Thousands of families could be saving money on their childcare costs. But some simply don’t know what support they might be eligible for. The Childcare Choices website brings together all the existing childcare offers in one place, so parents can get the help that fits their family. This could be through Tax-Free Childcare, 30 Hours Childcare, or Universal Credit Childcare. Some families might be eligible to use more than one childcare schemes together and get the most out of it.
And from next year even more help is on the way:

Don’t miss out on getting the support you are entitled to. Visit the Childcare Choices website to check what offer you might be eligible for and sign up to their newsletter to get the latest updates about the childcare support expansion.

Please come into our branch and speak to our managers if you need help applying for funding.

 

Healthy Food

We have fantastic kitchen areas to cook up meals and snacks for your children to enjoy.  ​

We can provide children with a hot meal (main course, pudding, bread and a drink) if they're they are with us over lunchtime (11.45am - 12.15PM) at a cost of £2.00 per day, or you can send a healthy packed lunch.  All meals meet all school meals nutritional standards.

​All our food is Halal with vegetarian options, provided by NutriFresh, a Birmingham company who specialise in Early Years catering. You can download a sample menu here, and if your child has lunch or tea with us, we will provide you with the menu which is on a 3 week rolling programme, in advance.

​Here are some examples of the healthy snacks we have on offer at Flying High:

  • ​Fruit, Cereal, Toast
  • Cheese straws
  • Bread Sticks
  • Crumpets
  • Salad sticks with hummus
  • Fresh Fruits

​The baby room will have a range of suitable fruits, baby biscotti, baby cheese puffs or parents are welcome to send their own choice of snacks.

​We've been awarded a 5 by the Food Standards Agency for our food hygiene in our on-site kitchen.