You can access up to 30 hours per week of combined Funded Early Education or Foundation Phase Nursery and government-funded childcare, for up to 48 weeks of the year.

This Funded Early Education element forms 10 hours of the 30 hour offer.

Securing a Funded Early Education place does not give you an automatic nursery place in a Wrexham school. You must apply for a nursery place separately.

For children who have reached the age of three before the start of spring term, a funded place will be provided for both the spring and summer terms. For children with birthdays in the spring term a funded place will be provided for the summer term.

If your child is eligible for both spring and summer terms you can apply from September 1, 2022. You’ll need to apply by October 28, 2022 to be offered a place starting in spring term (January) 2023.

If your child is eligible just for the summer term you can apply from October 31, 2022. You’ll need to apply by December 16, 2022, to be offered a place starting in summer term (April) 2023.

You can apply online for Funded Early Education.

Alternatively paper applications are available by emailing admissions@wrexham.gov.uk.

In Wrexham we are committed to giving our youngest children the best possible start in education. Children in Funded Early Education learn through play - in line with the Curriculum for Funded Non-Maintained Nursery Settings in Wales.

Research in Wrexham has proven that children in Funded Early Education at age three go on to achieve higher outcomes, at the end of year six, than those who do not take up the offer.

Benefits of Funded Early Education for your child include...

• learning new skills 
• growing in confidence 
• finding out and problem solving
• exploring and using technology
• developing independence
• developing creativity and imagination
• learning to speak Welsh
• making friends
• having lots of fun indoors and outdoors

Your child can have a place in a funded setting for either:

• Five sessions a week, one per day, of two hours duration, or
• Four sessions per week, one per day, of two and a half hours duration

This will depend on what the approved setting of your choice provides.

An approved setting is funded to deliver Early Education for three year olds and may be one of the following:

A designated...

• Playgroup
• Private day nursery
• Nursery class or early years unit in a local school

Funded Early Education Funding

You can only apply for a funded place at one setting. Funding is paid directly to the setting.

Settings who receive funding...

• Must have appropriately qualified staff
• Will be inspected by ESTYN and Care Inspectorate Wales(CIW)
• Must provide the stated sessions
• Receive regular training