Free early education and childcare funding documents
Forms, guidance notes and information for childcare providers.
It is recommended the video guides are used in conjunction with the Provider Portal Guide.
- How to log on to the Provider Portal
- How to change your password
- I have forgotten my password
- How to access and submit forms
- How to navigate around the funding section
- How to submit an estimate claim
- How to add a 3 or 4 year old child for universal hours (non stretch)
- How to use the 30 hour eligibility checker
- How to add extended hours to your 3 or 4 year old claim
- How to claim Early Years Pupil Premium
- How to add a 2yr old child to your claim
- How to amend a child
- How to delete a child from your claim
- How to claim stretched funding
- How to fill your Child Sufficiency Data
- Kirklees Early Years Funding Formula Consultation Outcome and Final Proposals 2026-27
- Kirklees Early Years Funding Formula Proposals 2026-27
- Kirklees Early Years Funding Formula Consultation Outcome 2025-26
- Kirklees Early Years Funding Formula Proposals 2025-26
- Kirklees Early Years Funding Formula Consultation Results 2024-25
- Kirklees Early Years Funding Formula Proposals 2024-25
- Kirklees Early Years Funding Formula Survey Results 2023-24
- Kirklees Early Years Funding Formula Proposals 2023-24
- Kirklees Early Years Funding Formula Proposals 2022-23
- The Kirklees Agreement - 2026/27
- Delivery of Free Early Education and Childcare - A Guide for Providers
- Early Education Funding & Childcare Sufficiency Submission Deadlines and Payment Dates Calendar 2026/27
- Free Early Education and Care Funding: Funded Weeks 2026-2027
- Eligibility chart -Free early education and care funding
- Ethnicity and Special Educational Needs lists
- Guidance on children missing from early learning and childcare providers
- Provider Portal Guide - Private, voluntary and independent providers
- Request to transfer an Early Education and Care Place in very exceptional circumstances guidance
- Sufficiency Data Collection
- Sufficiency Data Collection - Childminders
- Sufficiency Data Collection - Schools