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 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
- Delivery of Free Early Education and Care for Two, Three and Four year olds - A Guide for Local Authority Maintained Schools October 2022
- Delivery of Free Early Education and Care for Two, Three and Four year olds - A Guide for Private, Voluntary and Independent Providers October 2022
- Early Education Funding & Childcare Sufficiency Submission Deadlines and Payment Dates Calendar 2024/25
- Early Education Funding & Childcare Sufficiency Submission Deadlines and Payment Dates Calendar 2023/24
- Eligibility chart -Free early education and care funding
- Ethnicity and Special Educational Needs lists
- Funded weeks - Free early education and care funding 2024-25
- Funded weeks - Free early education and care funding 2023-24
- Guidance on children missing from early learning and childcare providers
- Provider Portal Guide - Private, voluntary and independent providers and schools
- 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
- The Kirklees Agreement - 2024/25