Early Years Education Funding Payment and Statutory Guidance
- Terms and conditions
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April 2024
These terms and conditions will replace the EYE Terms and Conditions dated April 2021 Version 2.2 and all previous versions. We use the Department for Education's Early Education and childcare Statutory Guidance for Local Authorities in shaping the terms and conditions.
Below is a version of these terms and conditions with any changes highlighted so you can see the differences between the Early Years Education Funding Payment Terms and Conditions V2.2 April 2021 and the February 2024 version.
Early Years Education Funding Payment Terms and Conditions Final February 2024
Early Years Education Funding Payment Terms and Conditions Final February 2024 - Highlighted Changes
April 2021
These terms and conditions replace the agreement EYE Terms and Conditions dated January 2018 Version 2.1 and all previous versions. We use the Department for Education's Early Education and Childcare Statutory Guidance for Local Authorities in shaping the terms and conditions.
2021 Early Years Education Funding Payment Terms and Conditions Final
Below is a summary of the paragraphs where changes have been made between the Early Years Education Funding Payment Terms and Conditions V2.1 January 2018 and version 2.2 April 2020.
2021 Updates to the Early Years Education Funding Payment Terms and Conditions
- Statutory guidance
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Statutory guidance for local authorities on the deliver of Early Years Education (EYE) funding and securing sufficient childcare. All EYE providers need to make themselves aware of this Statutory Guidance as this is the document that Hampshire County Council use to meet its statutory duty and administer the early years entitlement.
- Census guidance
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July 2018
All EYE providers in the private, voluntary and independent (PVI) sectors are within the scope of the early years census.
July 2017
The guidance sets out how local authorities (LAs) and early years settings should provide the entitlement for 2-, 3- and 4-year-olds.
Early education and childcare operational guidance 21 July 2017
All English providers of free early education in the private, voluntary and independent (PVI) sectors are within the scope of the early years census.
March 2017
Guidance on what information local authorities should include in their funding agreements with early years providers for delivering early years provision free of charge and free childcare.
Department for Education Model Agreement 3 March 2017
December 2016
Funding is received by local authorities and all providers are funded according to the Early Years National Funding Formula published in 2016.
Department for Education Early Years National Funding Formula operational guidance
A duty to secure 30 hours of childcare to three and four year-olds of working parents. The regulations provide for the additional 15 hours of childcare for children of working parents.
The Childcare (Early Years Provision Free of Charge) (Extended Entitlement) Regulations 2016
- Compliance reviews - guidance for providers
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This area is under review.
If you have any matters relating to the delivery or compliance of the Early Years Education funding payment terms and conditions, business surgeries are held locally. Contact your area Childcare Development and Business Support Officer for details.