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Are we claiming the right funding?
15-hour, 30-hour, tax-free childcare, disability access, what each parent is actually entitled to.
/ Snap suite · Childcare · Education · Free
CareSnap, Funding + staffing + safeguarding clarity.
CareSnap is the free UK decision-support app for owner-managed childcare settings. Check funding eligibility (15+30 hours, tax-free childcare), staffing ratios, safeguarding posture and Ofsted readiness, without paying a consultant £600 a day to read the same DfE guidance you already have access to.
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Childcare funding + staffing readiness check
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Built by ATTOH Digital · UK SME-focused
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Built by ATTOH Digital · UK SME-focused
/ Free tool · EYFS staffing ratios
How many staff does the room legally need?
Enter your children by age band. CareSnap applies the England EYFS ratios and shows the minimum staff required. Instant, in your browser.
Local estimate
England EYFS Statutory Framework ratios: under-2 1:3, age-2 1:4 (1:5 only where the relaxation conditions are met), age 3+ 1:13 with a qualified teacher present or 1:8 without. Minimum staffing only, not a substitute for your own risk assessment.
Minimum staff required
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/ What this app answers
Three questions, one app.
Every Snap is scoped to one operator decision. CareSnap answers three sub-questions that, together, give you the call you needed to make on childcare · education this week.
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Is the staffing ratio compliant?
Age-band ratios, qualified-to-unqualified mix, lead practitioner cover for safeguarding.
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How close are we to Ofsted-ready?
Top 10 inspection trigger questions + the documentation gap.
/ Who this is for
Built for the operators who actually have to decide.
Owner-managed nurseries, pre-schools, and after-school clubs (1-8 sites) navigating funding rate changes, ratio rules, safeguarding posture, and the inspection cycle.
/ How it works · 4 steps
From question to answer in under 10 minutes.
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Tell us about your setting
Age bands, headcount, sites, funding mix.
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CareSnap runs the rules
Live DfE funding rates, current ratio rules, safeguarding triggers.
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Get the gap list
What you are missing, ranked by Ofsted-trigger weight.
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Fix or hand off
Inline templates for the owner-fixable, escalation pack for the manager or external SENCo.
/ How it compares
Where Famly runs the nursery, CareSnap makes the call first.
Famly is a paid per-site platform you run the whole setting on. CareSnap is the free read on funding, ratios and Ofsted-readiness before that.
Famly
- A paid per-site platform, from £79/mo plus VAT
- Account setup and the whole setting to migrate
- Built to run the nursery, not to make the call
CareSnap
- Free, no login, no account
- Built on EYFS ratios, DfE funding and Ofsted triggers
- Sits in front and routes you to a human
Check funding, ratios and Ofsted-readiness free, before you adopt and pay for a full nursery platform. A self-check, not an Ofsted assessment.
/ FAQ · before you ask
What people ask before they use CareSnap.
01 How current is the funding data? +
Live against the DfE rate tables. Weekly freshness CI flags any update to hourly funding rates or eligibility thresholds.
02 Does CareSnap give Ofsted ratings? +
No, only Ofsted does. CareSnap surfaces the inspection-trigger gaps so the setting is ready when the call comes.
03 Is it suitable for childminders? +
Yes, childminder-specific ratio and funding rules are baked in. Pick 'childminder' in step 1.
04 What about SEND and disability access? +
CareSnap flags the disability access funding the setting is likely under-claiming, and surfaces the EHCP documentation gaps.
/ Pair this Snap
HRSnap
Pair with HRSnap for staffing decisions and tribunal-risk pre-checks.
Open HRSnap →Ready to ship your own Snap?
CareSnap is one of 22 free Snap apps. If your sector is not on the list, we will build one, scoped, shipped, supervised, in 4 to 8 weeks. Same engineering core, same source-freshness CI, your decision priced against the outcome it produces.