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First advance of 20 hours ECE

Below shows the funding process for services claiming their first advance of 20 Hours ECE funding.

Information on completing the EC20 transitional advance form is in Section 7-9 of this handbook.

Section 7-9

  1. The service requests an EC20 transitional advance form from the Ministry of Education team at [email protected].

  2. The service completes and returns the EC20 to the ECE Operational Funding team by email to [email protected].

  3. The Ministry calculates the service’s advance payment based on:

    • the number of days the service will be open and
    • the calculated funded child hours for each day during a selected week for
      • Under 2s
      • 2 and Overs not receiving 20 Hours ECE
      • 20 Hours ECE
      • Plus 10 ECE hours and
    • the date the service will begin offering 20 Hours ECE.

  4. The Ministry makes an advance payment to the service on the next available major payment date.

  5. The advance payment is washed-up against actual funded child hours on the next RS7 Return and 20 Hours ECE funding becomes part of the normal funding cycle.

Ceasing 20 hours ECE

Services that decide to stop offering 20 Hours ECE funding should contact the ECE Operational Funding team on [email protected] to discuss how to adjust their future funding.

20 Hours ECE