Nursery World - Local authorities to share £1m to trial EYPP

Schools minister David Laws has set out more details about the Early Years Pupil Premium, including plans for a pilot of the scheme.

Six local authorities will start implementing the EYPP early from January, ahead of its nationwide rollout across England in April 2015.

Stoke, Blackpool, Cambridgeshire, North Yorkshire, Bristol, and Hackney have been chosen to take part in the £1m pilot of the scheme.

Early years settings and schools will receive £300 a year for eligible three-and four-year-olds, which aims to help to ensure that children are prepared to start school and narrow the gap in attainment between children from disadvantaged backgrounds and their peers.

Ministers say that there can be as much as a 19 month gap between the most and least advantaged children.

The Government has also published its response to the consultation on the EYPP, as well as local authority funding allocations for the EYPP and the hourly rates for funded places for two-year-olds for 2015 -2016.

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