Coventry childcare provider handbook for the delivery of Early Education Entitlement Funding

This guidance has been created by Coventry Early Years Team to support childcare providers in meeting the terms and conditions of Early Education Entitlement Funding delivery, as set out in the following Government and Local Authority documentation:

• Early education and childcare: Statutory guidance for local authorities 2018
• Early years entitlements: operational guidance: For local authorities and providers June 2018
• Coventry Provider Funding Agreement (updated annually)
• Memorandum of Understanding for Maintained, Voluntary Aided / ControlledSchools

*The term parent is used throughout this guidance to refer to the person who has parental responsibility for a child.
** This document assumes that schools are delivering Early Education Entitlements over no more than 38 weeks per year.

Admissions policy

All parents should have the same rights to access a funded entitlement place regardless of whether they choose to pay for additional hours, activities, meals, snacks and consumables. Parents should not have to reserve a place each term.

Schools should publish admissions information, which is clear and can be easily understood by parents. This is to support parents to make an informed decision about where they wish to use their child’s funded entitlement.

The admissions information should clearly identify which hours/sessions can be taken as funded provision.

Please see examples of funding delivery models.