Early Years Pupil Premium

Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP) is additional funding for early years settings to improve the provision for disadvantaged 3 and 4-year olds.

Local Authorities are responsible for checking whether individual children meet the eligibility criteria for EYPP. Information about the child’s carers is used to determine whether or not the child is eligible.

A check for eligibility is only run for carers who have parental responsibility and have given consent. Parental responsibility and carer consent are indicated on the Student Details | Early Years Additional Information panel.
A report can be produced to identify children where an eligibility check has been run even though the parent declined check box was selected. Refer to: Remove Pupil Premium Eligibility Checks with Carer Declined.

Children who are identified as being eligible for EYPP on economic grounds will have the correct premium rate added as a Single Funding Formula (SFF) payment, alongside payments to settings for funded hours.

Check Eligibility for EYPP

The following table summarises how One determines the EYPP category a child is eligible for, e.g. Economic, Non-Economic or Looked After Child (LAC) based on the DfE Funding Basis Codes (Lookup table id:1206):

CBDS Codes

EXT Code	Early Years Pupil Premium Basis for Funding
EE	Eligible through economic criteria
EO	Eligible other known reason
EB	Eligible both reasons
EU	Eligible unknown basis

Criteria

Eligibility Criteria	Internal Codes	CBDS External Codes
Non-Economic	Any code mapped to Ext Code	EO or EU
Economic	Any code mapped to Ext Code	EE or EB
Looked After Child	LAC	EO

Business Rules for Identifying the EYPP Record to Use

The Generate Payments routine uses the history of pupil premium checks to determine whether or not a child is eligible and, if eligible, the rate at which the child will be paid. The business rules below are used to identify the EYPP record that is used:

• If there is only one EYPP record in the history, this record is used.
• If there are two manual eligible checks (non-economic, economic or LAC), the latest check date is used.
• If there are three manual eligible checks, one for each of non-economic, economic and LAC, the eligible non-economic check record is used.
• If there are two manual eligible checks, one economic and one LAC, the eligible economic check record is used.
• If there are two automatic economic checks for the same carer, the latest check record is used.
• If there are two automatic economic checks for two different carers and only one carer is eligible, the eligible carer check record is used.
• If there are one or more automatic economic eligible checks and there is a more recent manual economic check, the manual economic check is used.
• If there are one or more automatic economic eligible checks and there is an older eligible non-economic manual check, the manual eligible check is used.
• If there is one eligible and one not eligible automatic economic check and an earlier not eligible manual check, the latest automatic economic check is used. 
• If there are non-economic or economic not eligible manual checks and an eligible Looked After Child (LAC) check, the LAC check is used. 

For more information, see Single Funding Formula and Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP) Payments.