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Ministry of Education New Zealand

Advance funding is calculated separately for the days your service is operating as All-Day and operating as Sessional. Only complete the advance days column relevant to your service’s operating structure.

Calculating advance days

Follow the steps below to calculate the number of days that advance funding will be paid for:

Do not count public holidays, even if the service will be open. Public holidays are not funded in advance.

  1. Use a calendar to count up the number of days the service will be open and operating as all-day during each of the next 4 months.

  2. Write the number of days the service will be open and operating as all-day for each month in the boxes provided.

  3. Use a calendar to count up the number of days the service will be open and operating as sessional during each of the next 4 months.

  4. Write the number of days the service will be open and operating as sessional for each month in the boxes provided.

Example

There is a maximum of 22 operational days in September.

The Anniversary Day Holiday for Huia Playcentre and Kowhai Street Childcare Centre’s region is on September 27. The services cannot claim advance funding for this day.

Huia Playcentre is a sessional service. They claim 21 days advance funding in the Sessional column.

Kowhai Street Childcare Centre operates all-day on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and Tuesday and Thursday as sessional. They claim 12 days in the all-day column, and 9 days in the sessional column.