Children’s Services Education & Skills, Childcare Strategy, School Improvement, Early Years Learning and Welfare Early Years Pupil Premium Making a difference

Children’s Services Education & Skills, Childcare Strategy, School Improvement, Early Years Learning and Welfare Agenda  What is the EYPP: Who can claim Eligibility criteria Process for claiming – for PVI providers - for maintained schools  How to spend your EYPP  Any questions

Children’s Services Education & Skills, Childcare Strategy, School Improvement, Early Years Learning and Welfare What is the Early Years Pupil Premium?  Introduced in April 2015  To support providers to: bridge the gap between the most and least advantaged children improve disadvantaged children's outcomes  53p per hour per eligible child => £ per year (child accessing full 15 hours) pro rata for less than 15 hours

Children’s Services Education & Skills, Childcare Strategy, School Improvement, Early Years Learning and Welfare Who can claim the EYPP?  Early Years Pupil Premium can be claimed by providers, including school nurseries, if: a 3 or 4 year old is accessing a free early education place at their setting and the child’s parent /carer receives one of the following benefits:

Children’s Services Education & Skills, Childcare Strategy, School Improvement, Early Years Learning and Welfare What is the eligibility criteria?  Income Support  Income-based Jobseekers Allowance  Income-related Employment and Support Allowance  Support under Part VI of the Immigration & Asylum Act 1999  The guaranteed element of State Pension Credit  Child Tax Credit (provided the family is not entitled to WTC & have an annual gross income of no more than £16,190)  Working Tax Credit run-on

Children’s Services Education & Skills, Childcare Strategy, School Improvement, Early Years Learning and Welfare What is the eligibility criteria?  Or the child falls into one of the following groups: Looked after by the local authority for at least one day Adopted from care Has left care through a special guardianship order Is subject to a child arrangement order (previously known as a residence order)

Children’s Services Education & Skills, Childcare Strategy, School Improvement, Early Years Learning and Welfare How do I claim the EYPP? Step 1 Make the parents/carers aware of the Factsheet & encourage them to complete the EYPP Registration Form if they believe they may be eligible.

Children’s Services Education & Skills, Childcare Strategy, School Improvement, Early Years Learning and Welfare Step 2: PVI Providers A - for families who receive one of the eligible benefits

Children’s Services Education & Skills, Childcare Strategy, School Improvement, Early Years Learning and Welfare Step 2: Maintained schools A - for families who receive one of the eligible benefits

Children’s Services Education & Skills, Childcare Strategy, School Improvement, Early Years Learning and Welfare Step 2: Maintained schools A - for families who receive one of the eligible benefits

Children’s Services Education & Skills, Childcare Strategy, School Improvement, Early Years Learning and Welfare Step 2: Maintained schools A - for families who receive one of the eligible benefits

Children’s Services Education & Skills, Childcare Strategy, School Improvement, Early Years Learning and Welfare Step 2: Maintained schools A - for families who receive one of the eligible benefits

Children’s Services Education & Skills, Childcare Strategy, School Improvement, Early Years Learning and Welfare Step 2: Maintained schools A - for families who receive one of the eligible benefits

Children’s Services Education & Skills, Childcare Strategy, School Improvement, Early Years Learning and Welfare Step 2: PVI Providers & Maintained schools B - If a parent/carer indicates that their child belongs to one of the following groups: Has been adopted from care Has left care through a special guardianship order Is subject to a child arrangement order 1.You will need to see a copy of the court order 2.Record this on the EYPP Registration Form 3. funding team with the child's details

Children’s Services Education & Skills, Childcare Strategy, School Improvement, Early Years Learning and Welfare Step 3 1.The funding team will check eligibility through the Eligibility Checking System (ECS) 2.We will inform providers /schools which children are eligible via and ask that they inform parent/carers if they are eligible or not. 3.Payment will be made at the end of each term along with the final early years funding payment.

Children’s Services Education & Skills, Childcare Strategy, School Improvement, Early Years Learning and Welfare Looked-after children 1.Each term funding team will run report to identify eligible looked-after children. 2.LAC Virtual Head will send letter to providers /schools where looked-after children attend, detailing what is required. 3.On confirmation that conditions have been met, LAC Virtual head will authorise funding team to make payments to providers/schools.

Children’s Services Education & Skills, Childcare Strategy, School Improvement, Early Years Learning and Welfare Out of area looked-after children  The Local Authority cannot pay EYPP for out of area looked-after children.  Providers / schools will need to invoice the Local Authority who has placed the child.

Children’s Services Education & Skills, Childcare Strategy, School Improvement, Early Years Learning and Welfare Re-checks  The eligibility of children receiving the funding will be automatically checked again at the beginning of the academic year when the child takes up their 4 year old funded place.  You do not need to apply for children on a termly basis, only in the first term that a child accesses their funded place (unless a parent/carer makes you aware that their circumstances may have changed which may now make them eligible for the EYPP).

Children’s Services Education & Skills, Childcare Strategy, School Improvement, Early Years Learning and Welfare Re-checks continued  The families of 2 year olds who are receiving a free early education place will automatically be checked using the information provided by the parent/carer in their application for a Free for 2 place.

Children’s Services Education & Skills, Childcare Strategy, School Improvement, Early Years Learning and Welfare How to Spend your EYPP  Pooling the EYPP to purchase shared services  Buying in training & accessing specific training  Buying in services from external agencies  Visiting outstanding provision  Improving staff member’s qualifications  Providing additional staff to implement strategies such as the Early Years Language Programme

Children’s Services Education & Skills, Childcare Strategy, School Improvement, Early Years Learning and Welfare Raising the Quality of your Offer  Have you made contact with your local Children’s Centre  If the child attends term time only, what provision have you put in place for the holidays?  Who will be leading the spending and impact of the EYPP?  How will the EYPP improve the quality of provision for early language and literacy?  How will it improve the quality of teaching & learning

Children’s Services Education & Skills, Childcare Strategy, School Improvement, Early Years Learning and Welfare Raising the Quality of your Offer  How could it contribute to practitioners CPD and how would the impact be measured?  How can you encourage a professional dialogue and debate to learn from other settings?  How could this improve the quality of the physical environment and “resources”?  How can you improve Parent’s involvement and engagement in their child’s learning?  How are you identifying children’s needs?

Children’s Services Education & Skills, Childcare Strategy, School Improvement, Early Years Learning and Welfare Raising the Quality of your Offer  How could you effect and impact on a child’s home learning environment?  How are you measuring progress and impact of the EYPP?  Are you considering the evidence that shows that having a graduate in a setting helps to improve the quality of practice?

Children’s Services Education & Skills, Childcare Strategy, School Improvement, Early Years Learning and Welfare Raising the Quality of your Offer  Education Endowment Foundation Toolkit  toolkit/early-years toolkit/early-years

Children’s Services Education & Skills, Childcare Strategy, School Improvement, Early Years Learning and Welfare Raising the Quality of your Offer Early Education – Learning together about Learning project 

Children’s Services Education & Skills, Childcare Strategy, School Improvement, Early Years Learning and Welfare Any questions?