Additional entitlements
Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP)
Your childcare provider may be able to claim extra funding to enhance the quality of your child’s early education from the term after they turn 9 months old.
Your child will be eligible for the Early Years Pupil Premium if you are in receipt of one or more of the following benefits or credits:
- 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, but not Working Tax Credit, with an annual gross income of no more than £16,190
- Working Tax Credit run-on – paid for four weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit
- Universal Credit – if the child is born on or after 1 January 2015 and the parent is entitled to Universal Credit, they must have an annual net earned income equivalent to and not exceeding £7,400, assessed on up to three of the parent’s most recent Universal Credit assessment periods.
OR the child has:
- been looked after by the local authority for at least one day
- been adopted from care
- left care through special guardianship
- a child arrangement order
How to claim
If you are in receipt of one of the above, please complete the EYPP application section on the Parental/Guardian Declaration Form that your childcare provider will have asked you to complete.
Disability Access Fund (DAF)
The Disability Access Fund (DAF) is funding for early years providers to support children with disabilities or special educational needs from the term after they turn 9 months old. It supports providers to make reasonable adjustments to their settings.
To be eligible for DAF, children must meet the following criteria:
- the child is in receipt of Disability Living Allowance (DLA), AND
- the child is in receipt of the Early Years Funding universal 15 hours entitlement (no minimum number of hours is required)
To claim DAF, the parent will need to complete the Disability Access Fund (DAF) section of the Parental/Guardian Declaration Form that your childcare provider will have asked you to complete and return it to them with a copy of their DLA award letter.
For more help or information contact the Early Years Entitlements Team via eyfunding@warwickshire.gov.uk