Set up ECCE hours
Mark the funded time slots in a child’s schedule and keep ECCE term dates current.
Checked against Meadow on 2026-10-12
ECCE is the Early Childhood Care and Education programme. In Meadow, a child’s schedule identifies their ECCE hours. You do not add a separate ECCE registration to the child’s profile.
Set up the hours
- Open Schedules → Term dates and check the setting’s ECCE terms for the relevant year.
- Add or edit the child’s schedule in Schedules → Children.
- Mark the applicable time slot as ECCE session.
- For a longer day, split the hours into adjacent ECCE and ordinary-care slots. For example: 9am–12pm ECCE, then 12pm–4pm ordinary care.
- Choose the correct terms and outside-term arrangement, save, and review the grid.
Meadow allows no more than three marked ECCE hours per day. ECCE funding applies on ECCE term days, so check the dates as well as the marked hours.
Understand the ECCE badge
The badge identifies a child with scheduled ECCE hours. It can appear before those hours start and remain visible over holidays. It does not mean every date or every hour of their day is ECCE funded.
An absence records that the child did not attend; it does not remove their underlying schedule. Review the appropriate report and scheme rules when deciding what can be claimed.
If ECCE hours are missing
Check the schedule’s start and end dates, the marked ECCE slot, the setting’s ECCE terms and any one-off day. An exception can replace the usual day, including its ECCE session.
Do not look for the old Add ECCE or session-type setup. Use schedules and term dates.