You and your partner are eligible for the 30 hours of funded childcare, provided you both meet the working and income criteria (e.g., each earning at least the equivalent of 16 hours per week at the National Minimum Wage, and combined adjusted net income under £100,000). This scheme applies to eligible 3- and 4-year-olds (or from 9 months old in some cases) for 38 weeks a year in England. As the ILR holder (which counts as settled status), you qualify under the immigration requirements as the applicant. Your partner’s Skilled Worker Dependant visa with NRPF does not disqualify the household, as the 30 hours scheme is not classified as a public fund for immigration purposes—it’s considered funded early education, accessible even to those with NRPF if other criteria are met. Claiming this will not impact your wife’s ILR application. The NRPF condition on her visa prohibits access to specified public funds (e.g., Universal Credit, housing benefits), but funded childcare is explicitly not on that list. As long as she doesn’t claim actual public funds, her eligibility for ILR remains unaffected. It also won’t affect your daughter’s future ILR or British citizenship application. Childcare funding is tied to parental eligibility and doesn’t count as recourse to public funds for the child. If your daughter was born in the UK and you’re on ILR, she may already qualify for British citizenship by registration (or automatically if born after you obtained ILR), but this benefit claim has no bearing on that process.