Funded early learning and childcare is free to parents, but funded by the Scottish Goverment.

You can get up to 600 hours of funded early learning and childcare a year (around 16 hours a week in term time) if your child is 3 or 4 years old.

Children aged between 2 and 3 years old

You can also get funded early learning and childcare if your child has turned 2 and you get one of these benefits:

• Income Support (IS)
• Job Seeker's Allowance (income based)
• any income related element of Employment and Support Allowance
• Incapacity or Severe Disablement Allowance
• State Pension Credit
• Child Tax Credit (CTC), but not Working Tax Credit and your income is less than £16,105
• both maximum CTC and maximum Working Tax Credit and your income is under £6,420
• support under part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
• Universal Credit and your household income is £610 a month or less

Funded early learning and childcare is also available if your child is 2 or over and is or, since they turned 2, has been:

• looked after by a local council
• the subject of a kinship care order
• the subject of a guardianship order

How to claim your funded early learning and childcare place

Visit your local council's website to find out how to claim your funded early learning and childcare place.