Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP)

Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP) is additional funding that is available to early years providers to support children’s development, learning and care.

EYPP provides extra money to the early years provider for three and four-year-old children whose parents are in receipt of a qualifying benefit, are in care to a local authority or who have left care under an adoption, special guardianship or child arrangement order.

If you are eligible, your childcare provider could receive additional funding, on the 15 hour universal entitlement , to improve the quality of the early years education provided for your child. This could include, for example:

additional training and support for staff working on specialised areas such as speech and language
investing in partnership working with colleagues in the area to learn from each other
resources to help raise the quality of your child’s education

If you think you may be eligible for EYPP please speak to your childcare provider.

Parents and carers who receive any of the following may qualify:

Universal Credit provided you have an annual net earned income of no more than £7,400, as assessed by earnings from up to three of your most recent assessment periods.
Income Support.
Income-based Jobseekers Allowance.
Income-related Employment and Support Allowance.
Support from NASS (National Asylum Support Service) under part 6 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.
The guaranteed element of State Pension Credit.
Child Tax Credit (provided family is not also entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual gross income of no more than £16,190).
Working Tax Credit run-on (the payment someone may receive for a further four weeks after they stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit).

You may also qualify if your child has:

been looked after by the local authority for at least one day
been adopted from care
left care through a special guardianship order or a child arrangement order in England or Wales

What you need to do

Your early years provider should have given you a registration form, fill it in and return it to them.

Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP)

Introduction

Do you qualify

What you need to do