At Heathfield, we have a 50 place First Steps provision. We offer 15 x 30 hour places and 10 x am 15 hours and 10 x am 15 hours. The number of 30 hours places can be adjusted by the governing board throughout the year based on demand and staffing. Places will be allocated to eligible working parents, who have completed the eligibility check. If oversubscribed, places will be allocated based on the age of the child.
The governing board will allocate places within our First Steps Provision to start September, January and April. The governing board can make the decision to admit children outside of these times, if places are available.
Places within First Steps are allocated in the following order:
- To parents eligible for funded 15 hour places according to the DfE’s eligibility criteria, who have completed the eligibility check? Eligibility is based on families recieveing one of the following:
- Income Support
- income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)
- income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
- Universal Credit, and your household income is £15,400 a year or less after tax, not including benefit payments
- the guaranteed element of Pension Credit
- Child Tax Credit, Working Tax Credit (or both), and your household income is £16,190 a year or less before tax
- the Working Tax Credit 4-week run on (the payment you get when you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit)
- To eligible working parents, who have completed the eligibility check.
- Paid places.
At Heathfield, we have a 52 place Nursery provision. Of the 52 places, up to 16 can be 30 hours and 10 x am places and 10 x pm sessions. The exact number of 30 hour places will be reviewed continually by the governing board based on demand and staffing.
The governing board will allocate places for Nursery to start in September, January and April.
Places will be offered in birth date order from the term after they have turned 3, including 30 hour places (where there is availability) and parents/carers have provided their eligibility code. Where the waiting list exceeds place availability for 30 hours, places will be offered to families whose children are already at Heathfield accessing 15 hours provision in First Steps.
Additional sessions may be purchased for parents/carers needing additional childcare if we have capacity and parents can pay for extended hours each day so that timings are in line with Rec - Year 6 school day.
- Children wishing to change from one school to another school within the borough
- Children who have arrived into the borough requiring a school place
- Children wishing to move from an independent school to a school maintained by the Council
- Children resident in the borough but requiring admission to a school in another borough.