Nursery World - EYPP could help create 'teacher-led' settings

The Government's consultation on the introduction of the Early
Years Pupil Premium (EYPP) encourages early years providers to use the funding to make their settings 'teacher-led'.

The consultation, which seeks the views of the early years sector, local authorities and parents, makes a number of recommendations to early years providers and schools about how they could use the new EYPP to better support disadvantaged three- and four-year-olds.

More than 170,000 three- and four-year-olds are set to benefit from the £50m Pupil Premium from April 2015.

The aim of the EYPP is to close the gap between children from disadvantaged backgrounds and their peers by providing funding to early years providers to help them raise the quality of their provision.

Nurseries, schools and other early years providers, including childminders, will receive an additional £300 per year for each eligible child (see box) who takes up the full 570 hours. This equates to an hourly rate of 53p per child per hour.

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