The Department for Education (DfE) has today published the new funding rates for early years providers to deliver the funded offer for 2025-26. They include the Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP) rate, which has risen by 45 per cent, an ‘unprecedented amount’, meaning settings will receive around £570 per eligible child, per year. The EYPP rate still remains below the amount schools receive, however.
The Sutton Trust welcomed the uplift in the EYPP, but said ‘much more is needed to level the playing field’.
It’s chief executive Nick Harrison added, ‘The Government should now set out how and when it will end the travesty of better off children receiving at least double the early years education that children from poorer homes are entitled to.’
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