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Early education, nurseries and childminding

Local information and support around early education, nurseries and childminding.
Suffolk Family Hubs

Funded early education

All 3 and 4 year olds get 15 hours funded early education a week for 38 weeks a year.

Working families may get another 15 hours childcare a week. That's up to a total of 30 hours a week for 38 weeks of the year.

For advice about finding and choosing childcare and how to access the funded early education entitlement for 2, 3 and 4-year old children, please visit childcare information and support for parents and providers.

There is government help for childcare support for parents. Find out what offers of childcare support is available to you on the Childcare Choices website.

Information and Advice and useful self-help resources

Some helpful sources of information, advice and self-help are: 

Getting local help

A directory of funded early education, childminders, pre-school playgroups, day nurseries, out of school clubs, holiday schemes, school nursery classes and children's centres in your local area can be found on this Suffolk Infolink page.

Support available in your local area