{"id":7740,"date":"2025-09-11T10:41:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T10:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monkeypuzzledaynurseries.com\/source\/?post_type=avada_faq&#038;p=7740"},"modified":"2025-09-11T10:41:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T10:41:26","slug":"government-30-free-hours-vs-funded-childcare","status":"publish","type":"avada_faq","link":"https:\/\/monkeypuzzledaynurseries.com\/source\/faq-items\/government-30-free-hours-vs-funded-childcare\/","title":{"rendered":"Government 30 Free Hours VS Funded Childcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1419.6px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You may hear the Government funding initiatives being called &#8220;free childcare&#8221; or &#8220;funded childcare&#8221; and used interchangeably. Both refer to government-supported early education and childcare programs, which entitle all 3-5 year olds to the universal 15-hours funding offering. This is set to be extended to the 30-hour scheme for working parents of all eligible children aged 9 months and above by September 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"faq_category":[191],"class_list":["post-7740","avada_faq","type-avada_faq","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","faq_category-funding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeypuzzledaynurseries.com\/source\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_faq\/7740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeypuzzledaynurseries.com\/source\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_faq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeypuzzledaynurseries.com\/source\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/avada_faq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeypuzzledaynurseries.com\/source\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeypuzzledaynurseries.com\/source\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monkeypuzzledaynurseries.com\/source\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_faq\/7740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeypuzzledaynurseries.com\/source\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"faq_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeypuzzledaynurseries.com\/source\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq_category?post=7740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}