The Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP) is an extra grant available to the childcare provider your child attends for their universal entitlement. Childcare providers will use EYPP to improve facilities, equipment and learning experiences which will benefit the growth and development of your child.
It is not intended to reduce fees and charges parents may incur from purchasing additional hours over and above the funded hours.
Eligibility
The EYPP is open to both:
- 3 and 4-year-olds accessing the universal entitlement (15 hours)
- children aged 9 months to 2 years accessing the working parent entitlements
It would entitle your childcare provider to £376.20 extra funding per year to support your child's education.
To be eligible, children must be accessing one of the listed entitlements and their family must be in receipt of at least one of the following:
- Income Support
- Income-based Jobseekers 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 you’re not also entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual gross income of no more than £16,190)
- Universal Credit - must have an annual net earned income equivalent to and not exceeding £7,400, assessed on up to 3 of the parent's most recent Universal Credit assessment periods
- Working Tax Credit run-on – paid for 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit
Or, if the child has:
- been in local authority care for 1 day or more in England or Wales
- been adopted from care in England or Wales
- left care under a special guardianship order or residence order in England or Wales
Check your eligibility
Your childcare provider will ask you to fill in a parent declaration form in order to access the universal entitlement. Fill in the relevant section of this form to apply for the EYPP funding.
If you apply for EYPP and are informed that you are not eligible, this does not affect your funded childcare place.
Childcare providers must be registered with OFSTED and approved by the council to deliver funded early education places.
Receiving the EYPP funding
EYPP is paid directly to your childcare provider as part of their normal early education funding claim.