Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP)

This page is for childcare professionals who want to find out more about Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP).

If you are a parent or carer please visit the EYPP parents page to find out how EYPP can help your child.

Early Years Providers can claim the EYPP for 3 and 4 year olds who receive the universal 15 hours entitlement and meet the eligibility criteria.

The EYPP is payable only on the universal 15 hours entitlement and not on the additional 15 hours entitlement for working parents.

Children don't need to access the full 15 hour entitlement to be eligible for the EYPP, providers will be paid on a pro rata basis.

• 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
  
• Child Tax Credit (provided they’re not also entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual gross income of no more than £16,190)
  
• Working Tax Credit run-on, which is paid for four weeks after they stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit
  
• Universal Credit (provided they have an annual net earned income equivalent to and not exceeding £7,400, assessed on up to three of the parent’s most recent Universal Credit assessment periods.).

• adopted from care
  
• has left care through a special guardianship arrangement
  
• has left care and is subject to a child arrangement order (previously known as a residence order).

The EYPP is paid at a national rate of 66p per hour for every free early education hour that an eligible child attends their setting. For example, if children are attending their full 15 hours of free early education a week this would be as follows:

1 child - £376.20 each year

5 children - £1881 each year

10 Children - £2762 each year

15 Children - £5643 each year

You should promote the EYPP to all parents and target parents of children accessing a funded 2 year old place.

The easiest way to promote and inform parents, is to do this at the point when a parent registers at your setting and when children become eligible for a funded 3 and 4 year old place.

Ensure that all staff are confident in talking face to face with parents about the benefits of the EYPP and checking their eligibility.

Consider making displays to show parents how the funding has been spent to encourage parents to share relevant information.

There is a sample letter available if you would like to use it, you don't have to post this if you don't want to, an email is fine.

You can also look at putting this EYPP link for parents information page on your website, in electronic newsletters or on social media pages. You can include how you have spent the funding and the impact it has had on the children.

• pooling the EYPP to purchase shared services such as a Speech and Language Therapist
  
• joining with other settings to access training / resources
  
• improving staff member's qualifications
  
• accessing training or providing additional staff to implement specific strategies
  
• additional staffing to access research documents / strategies
  
• additional quality time and interaction for staff to spend with children eligible for EYPP
  
• enrichment opportunities / activities
  
• purchasing resources
  
• visits to home / school / external professionals
  
• additional space

You make a claim for the EYPP at the same time as your main funding claim and / or adjustment claim.

You need to ensure the parent has included the required information on their Parent Declaration Form i.e., parent surname/s, parent/s date of birth and parent/s National Insurance number or National Asylum Seeker number.

• has been adopted from care
  
• has left care through a special guardianship arrangement
  
• has left care and is subject to a child arrangement order.

We will be able to check the eligibility of any children that have been identified as being looked after by the local authority. Please use the notes section to inform us of a looked after child (LAC).

An eligibility check will be carried out once you have submitted your main or adjustment claim and the results will show up in the ‘Child Weightings’ column as EYPP.

After the Provider Portal has been updated, you will receive an email that informs you that your EYPP claim has been processed. You can then inform the parent or carer of the outcome of their application and how the funding will be spent. If the parent disagrees with the decision, please email Early Years and Childcare and the details can be re-checked.

You will be paid separately from your main claim payment for children that are eligible for the EYPP later in the term.

• Early Years online portal guidance
• How to spend your EYPP from The British Association for Early Childhood Education
  
• EYPP Poster
• EYPP Declaration Form
• EYPP sample letter for parents
• EYPP Flowchart
  
• EYPP Reflection Questions
  
• EYPP Action Plan Template