Early education and childcare
Documentation
Childcare Provider Information
Guidance and information to support childcare providers to claim early education:
Early Education Funding Agreement
- Funding Agreement
- Writing a Charging Policy
- Childcare Invoices for Early Education
- Writing a Complaints Procedure for Early Education
- Writing an Admissions Policy for Early Education
Early Education Claim Period Documentation
To be issued to parents and carers -
Calculators to help calculate funded hours to be claimed –
- Calculator - parent claim form
- Annual Calculator (based on date of birth) - Summer / Autumn / Spring
- Calculator - estimates and actuals
Other helpful guidance –
- Early Education Funding Toolkit
- Deadline Dates to claim Early Education Funding
Early Education Payments and Rates
Current rates and payment dates -
- Hourly rates for Early Education funding
- Determine my 3 and 4 year old funding hourly rate
- Funding payment dates
Update payment and supplement records -
Early Years National Funding Formula (EYNSFF)
- Annual Budget Guidance and Statement
- Estimate your Deprivation Supplement
Early Years Procedures –
- Complaints (funding entitlement)
- Appeals (withdrawal or suspension of funding or a request to repay)
Data Protection –
- Guidance – Data Protection and Password Management
- Privacy Notice
- Receiving and Sending Secure Emails
Other Guidance –
- Financial Good Practice for Early Years Providers
- Completing your Census Return Financial good practice
Other Early Years Funding –
- Start-up
- Developing childcare places
- Quality & inclusion
- Smarter working
- SEN Inclusion Fund
- EHCP and complex need
- 2-year early education
- Exceptional
- Specialist equipment
- Disability Access Fund (DAF)
If you do not find what you are looking for please contact the Early Years Finance team by email at earlyyearsfinance@norfolk.gov.uk