Early Years – Funded Service: multiple providers (3.86)

Description

A check is made to see if more than the maximum hours allowed is being claimed. This is across all providers in a term. If so, the system flags up that an apportionment is required. Hours are defined for that period in Focus | Early Years | Early Years setup | Define Early Years Payment Period.

Under 2 years old

Where they are attending multiple providers and are:

• eligible
• claiming the expanded hours only

2 years old

Where they are attending multiple providers and are:

• eligible
• claiming:
  • funded hours (disadvantaged funding) and expanded hours in the same term
    OR
  • claiming funded hours only
    OR
  • claiming the expanded hours only

For example if the child is:

• Exceeding the total number of funded hours (according to the parent period cap) across multiple providers
• Exceeding the total number of expanded hours (according to the payment period cap) across multiple providers

Previously claims were only allowed for either funded OR expanded hours. Now, apportionment can be managed across both.

Apportionmnent

Funded Service | <Provider> | 2. Children | <child> | Apportionment | 2. Payment Period Details

From September 2025 the Payment Period Details section displays the following:

• Max Expanded Hours Per Week
• Max Expanded Hours Per Period

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Focus | Early Years | Early Years setup | Define Early Years Payment Period

The Max Expanded Hours are populated from the 2 Year Olds (Expanded) on the 2. Payment Limits panel.

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