Issue details

DfE Early Years Expansion Grant 2025-26 – Funding Allocation Methodology to Early Years Providers

 

 

To consider the proposed funding allocation methodology for the DfE Early Years Expansion Grant 2025-26 funding to early years’ providers for the 2025-26 financial year. To approve the recommendation in respect of the funding allocation methodology to be used for the allocation of the grant to early years providers operating within North Yorkshire.

Decision type: Key

Reason Key: Expenditure > £500,000;

Decision status: For Determination

Notice of proposed decision first published: 03/03/2025

Decision due: 1 Apr 2025 by Executive Member for Education, Learning & Skills

Lead member: Executive Member for Education, Learning & Skills

Lead director: Corporate Director Children and Young People's Services

Contact: Howard Emmett Email: howard.emmett@northyorks.gov.uk Email: Howard.Emmett@northyorks.gov.uk.

Consultation process

No formal consultation will be undertaken. However, the North Yorkshire Schools Forum will be notified of the Early Years Expansion Grant 2025-26 at the meeting on 13 March 2025. Early years providers will be notified of the grant through the Early Years Key Messages bulletin, the CYPS-Info Red Bag bulletin and the March 2025 Early Years Leadership Forum briefings.

Consultees

The DfE conditions of grant for the Early Years Expansion Grant 2025-26, published on 28 February 2025, do not require formal consultation to be undertaken with the Schools’ Forum or the early years sector. The conditions of grant require local authorities to communicate provider funding rates within 6 weeks of DfE’s publication of rates, that is by 10 April 2025; this timescale does not allow for a formal consultation to be undertaken. The Schools’ Forum and the early years sector will be notified of the Early Years Expansion Grant 2025-26 in early March 2025 and there will be opportunity for comments and feedback to be provided.

Documents

  • DfE Early Years Expansion Grant 2025-26 – Funding Allocation Methodology to Early Years Providers