Early Years Pupil Premium

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What is EYPP?

• £50 million in 2015-16 to extend the pupil premium into

the early years. Introduced from April 2015.

• The EYPP will provide childminders, nurseries, schools

and other providers with additional support for

disadvantaged three and four year olds.

• Money will follow the child – meaning that funding will

be allocated to LAs through the Dedicated Schools

Grant (DSG), and LAs will pay a rate of 53p/child/hour

for eligible children.

• LA is passporting all funding to providers. There is no

top-slicing.

What is EYPP?

• More information is available in our consultation

document, consultation response and in DfE’s

advice for LAs

• www.foundationyears.org.uk/2014/06/consultati

on-early-years-pupil-premium-and-funding-for-

two-year-olds/

• www.foundationyears.org.uk/2015/02/early-

years-pupil-premium-guide-for-local-authorities/

Feedback from Foundation Years

Consultation

• Over 450 responses received to the consultation –from

a range of interested parties including parents,

nurseries, childminders, schools and local authorities.

• Overwhelmingly a positive response to the introduction

of the EYPP. 94% of respondents either ‘agreed’ or

‘strongly agreed’ with the principle of extending the

school-age premium into the early years.

• Some very helpful feedback about other areas of the

consultation –where appropriate we’ve updated the

policy accordingly.

Overview of process

What makes a child eligible?

Children will be eligible if…

They are three-or four-years old and receiving 15 hours of Government funded early education (the Free Entitlement) in

ANY provider, AND their parents are in receipt of one or more of the following benefits:

• 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)

• Working Tax Credit run-on –paid for 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit

And/or have been:

• looked after by the local authority for at least one day

• have been adopted from care

• have left care through special guardianship; or

• are children subject to a child arrangement order

How much will I be paid?

Number of children Amount each year

1 child £302.10

5 children £1510.50

10 children £3021.00

15 children £4531.50

Early Years Pupil Premium is paid at a national rate of

53p for every free early education hour that an eligible

child attends at their setting. London Borough of

Enfield passes on the full rate to providers. For

example, if child(ren) are attending their full 15 hours

of free early education a week this would equate as

follows:

How do I register a child for EYPP?

• It will be your responsibility to add the parent/carer’s details onto

the Provider Portal if you feel a child is eligible for the funding.

• Before you input these details you need to ensure the parent has

filled out and signed the registration form and given you permission

to share these details.

• Once you have added the parent/carer’s details as seen below, and

submitted, Informed Families will complete an eligibility check to

confirm whether the child is eligible for this additional funding or not.

• You have been supplied with a user guide to help you to input

these details.

Funding/Payment

• Funding will be paid on a termly basis

• Payment will be processed towards the end of

each term

• Providers will be notified in advance of the week

when the payments will be processed

• The payment will be paid as an adjustment

similar to the termly deprivation payments

• Termly payment for each child £100.70

What’s your role in promoting the EYPP?

• What's your role in promoting the Early Years Pupil Premium to parents and carers?

• You are responsible for promoting EYPP to your parents: You should promote the EYPP to

all parents and carers in your setting and encourage them to tell you that they may be eligible.

This is voluntary for parents and they do not have to sign up for the EYPP.

• Parent Letter Template: We have provided a letter template that you can use to contact parents

with or you can use your own method of communicating this information to your parents. You

may want to advertise the EYPP on your website, in newsletters or through social media.

• Registration Forms: The easiest way to promote and inform parents, is to do this at the point

when a parent registers at your setting. You can include a data segment in your registration form

that states by signing and providing their details, you will automatically eligibility check them for

EYPP when the time comes.

• Terrific Twos Children: From now, every TT application that we receive, the parent has agreed

for us to automatically check their eligibility for EYPP when they turn 3. This means you will not

need to contact these parents to ask. We will let you know if they are eligible.

• We will help promote EYPP. We have produced quick and easy guides, posters and leaflets for

you to supply parents with that fully explains what EYPP is and how it can help their child. We

have also developed a registration form that you can assist your parents to fill out so they can

access EYPP. We will also promote to parents when completing outreach.

• Please contact charlotte.barlow@enfield.gov.uk if you feel you need further marketing materials

to promote EYPP.

Good intervention strategies and ideas

Remember that the following key areas have been

shown to make the biggest difference (EPPE):

Home learning environment

Highly skilled workforce (graduate-led)

Sustained shared thinking

So

THINK about what you need and what works…..

Quality of Provision – What do you need

to think about?

• Leadership of the EYPP

• The quality of provision for early language and

literacy

• The physical environment and resources

• Parent’s involvement and engagement

• Supporting the home learning environment

Spending the EYPP – Ensuring it makes

a difference

You can choose how to spend the Early Years Pupil Premium but use

working evidence when making this decision and aim at raising the

quality of your early years education offer.

For example:

* Pooling the Early Years Pupil Premium to purchase shared services

such as an Early Years Graduate or a Speech and Language

Therapist

* Buying services from teaching schools alliances

* Improving staff member's qualifications

* Accessing training or providing additional staff to implement specific

strategies

Some familiar places to start….

Training from ICAN for Speech and Language interventions-

ican.org.uk

‘Share’ family workshops – Elli Pashourtides

National Literacy Trust - literacytrust.org.uk

Early Language Development programme from ‘Talking Point’-

talkingpoint.org.uk

LASS in PVIs Pilot Project – Liz Purkis

Borough training eg ‘Boy’s Writing’, Core Books

Home visiting

Play therapy

Speech therapist or Music specialist

Foundationyears.org.uk – case studies

PEAL or REAL programmes

Top tips for action planning….

Handout:

Top tips for action planning

SMART

EYPP – Ofsted Evidencing Impact

You need to be able to provide an inspector with a clear

trail of evidence consisting of the following:

• Eligible children’s starting points

• Children’s learning and development needs

• Funding allocated to each child

• How the funding was spent and why

• What you did to support the child

• Any changes you made to the actions you planned

• What impact the funding has had on the child’s learning

and development

Top tips for evidencing the impact….

Handout……

Questions that Ofsted might ask

Questions that Ofsted might ask

• Who are your EYPP children?

• What are they like as a group/cohort?

• What kind of support do they need?

• What is preventing them from achieving as well as their peers?

• What funding did you receive for them?

• Tell me how you spent the funding? Why?

• How do you know this was the most effective way of supporting the child/family?

• Tell me about their starting points and how you found out this information?

• Tell me how you monitor the progress of your EYPP children?

• What was/has been the IMPACT of the interventions you put in place?

• How is the quality/effectiveness of the interventions monitored?

• Have you made any changes to planned interventions? Why?

• What was successful?

• What was less successful?

• What might you do differently next time/in the future?

• What improvements do you have planned? What are you going to do first?

How will you

make the most

of the EYPP?

What issues

will you face?