Early years pupil premium information for childcare providers

What is Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP)?

Early Years Pupil Premium is extra funding for childcare providers to support children whose families receive additional support.

It must be used to improve the quality of early education, for example:

• Staff training
• Speech and language support
• Extra learning support

Providers can combine funding for several children to have a bigger impact.

Who can get EYPP?

A child can get EYPP if they:

• Are receiving funded early education (from 9 months to 4 years)
• And their family receives certain benefits, or the child has been in care

Eligible childcare places include:

• 15 hours (universal for 3–4-year-olds)
• 15 hours (for eligible 2-year-olds)
• 30 hours (working families, from 9 months to 4 years)

EYPP is only payable for the first 15 hours used by children taking up the eligible working parent entitlements for children aged 9 months to 4 years. EYPP is not payable on the additional 15 hours for these entitlements.

Families must receive one of the following:

• Income Support
• income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
• income-related Employment and Support Allowance
• support under part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
• the guaranteed element of State Pension Credit
• Universal Credit (income under £7,400 per year after tax)

Children also qualify if they:

• are looked after by a local authority in England or Wales
• Have left care through adoption, special guardianship, or child arrangements order

A child only receives EYPP once, even if they meet more than one set of criteria.

How to claim

1. Ask parents to complete a parental declaration form
2. Submit details through the Establishment Portal
3. The council will check eligibility

Once eligible, the child stays eligible for EYPP while in funded provision.

Funding

• Rate: £1.15 per hour
• Maximum funding: £655.50 per year per child
• Paid termly with your funding

Using the funding

Providers must:

• Decide how best to use EYPP
• Show how it improves outcomes for children
• Track children’s progress

Ofsted will check:

• How the money is spent
• The impact on children’s development

You may need to provide evidence of spending.

• Cheshire East EYPP tracking grid (MS Word, 48KB)

• Early Years Pupil Premium - Planning tool | Education Endowment Foundation.pdf

• Early Education have produced online guidance on Early Years Pupil Premium Funding and practical tips on how to use it (PDF, 1.5MB)
• Early Education have also devised a simple tool to help you record what you’ve spent and why you’ve spent it (MS Word, 61KB)
• An Early years pupil premium leaflet for parents (PDF, 176KB) is available for printing and displaying on noticeboard or handing out to parents.

Contact

Free Early Education Entitlement (FEEE) Team on 01270 685888.