Early Years Pupil Premium

1. Early Years Pupil Premium Making a difference

2. 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

3. 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 => £302.10 per year (child accessing full 15 hours) • pro rata for less than 15 hours

4. 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:

5. 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

6. 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)

7. 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.

8. Step 2: PVI Providers A - for families who receive one of the eligible benefits

9. Step 2: Maintained schools A - for families who receive one of the eligible benefits

10. Step 2: Maintained schools A - for families who receive one of the eligible benefits

11. Step 2: Maintained schools A - for families who receive one of the eligible benefits

12. Step 2: Maintained schools A - for families who receive one of the eligible benefits

13. Step 2: Maintained schools A - for families who receive one of the eligible benefits

14. 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 • You will need to see a copy of the court order • Record this on the EYPP Registration Form • Email funding team with the child's details

15. Step 3 • The funding team will check eligibility through the Eligibility Checking System (ECS) • We will inform providers /schools which children are eligible via email and ask that they inform parent/carers if they are eligible or not. • Payment will be made at the end of each term along with the final early years funding payment.

16. Looked-after children • Each term funding team will run report to identify eligible looked-after children. • LAC Virtual Head will send letter to providers /schools where looked-after children attend, detailing what is required. • On confirmation that conditions have been met, LAC Virtual head will authorise funding team to make payments to providers/schools.

17. 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.

18. 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).

19. 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.

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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?

23. 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?

24. Raising the Quality of your Offer • Education Endowment Foundation Toolkit • http://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/toolkit/early-years

25. Raising the Quality of your Offer Early Education – Learning together about Learning project • https://www.early-education.org.uk/eypp

26. Any questions?