Guidance and regulation

Information for local authorities and settings about early years funding for the 2024 to 2025 financial year

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 9 May 2024

• Early years entitlements: local authority funding operational guide 2024 to 2025

  1. Introduction 1.1 Who is this publication for? This guide is for: local…

• 2024 to 2025 early years national funding formulae: technical note

  1. Introduction This technical note describes the detailed methodology for…

• Easy explainer: early years funding rates

  1. What are the early years funding rates? On 29 November 2023, we…

Information for local authorities and settings about early years funding for the 2023 to 2024 financial year.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 19 June 2023

• Early years entitlements: local authority funding operational guide 2023 to 2024

  1. Introduction 1.1 Who is this publication for? This guide is for: local…

• 2023 to 2024 Early years funding formulae: technical note

  1. Introduction This technical note describes the detailed methodology for…

Guidance for local authorities about the 2024 summer and autumn termly data collection for the new early years entitlements

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 9 May 2024

• Early years data collection for the 2024 to 2025 financial year

  Introduction This guide is for local authorities. It sets out how they…

Delivery support funding for financial year 2023 to 2024 to support local authorities meet costs associated with rolling out the expanded early year entitlements.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 14 February 2024

Guidance for local authorities on the early years supplementary grant for 2023 to 2024.

• From: Department for Education and 1 others
• Updated: 19 September 2023

Funding for local authorities involved in the pilot to test the impact of financial incentives when recruiting early years staff.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 14 May 2024

Information for local authorities and institutions about early years funding for the 2022 to 2023 financial year.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 25 November 2021

Information on indicators of local authority early education services, and ways to compare an individual local authority to other local authorities.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 29 November 2023

Guidance for local authorities and schools on revenue funding in the 2018 to 2019 financial year.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 25 June 2018