Funding for Early Years Send
Funding for early years SEND
What funding is available to all providers offering early education to meet the needs of children with SEND
SEN support for children in early years should come from a cycle, known as the graduated approach. This means that when you identify a child as needing support to meet their special educational needs, the setting’s SENCO should carry out an assessment of their needs.
What funding is available in early years? Information for Parent Carers (on right of page)
The SEND Code of Practice says you should agree in consultation with the child’s parents how to respond to the child’s developmental differences by putting in place interventions and support.
What funding is available in Early Years
Early years providers can get funding to provide support for children with SEN from:
- Universal funding: early years providers get an amount per hour, per child, which early years settings get whether a child has SEND or not.
- Targeted funding: funding for three and four year olds, based on a deprivation supplement paid for each child depending on their home postcode.
- Early Years Special Educational Needs Panel funding: Early Years Special Educational Needs Panel funding can be applied for to support some children with special educational needs.
How we pay Early Years Special Educational Needs Panel funding to a setting
The funding we pay:
- goes directly to the setting where the child is registered
- transfers with the child when they move to a different setting
- can be shared across each setting if the child goes to more than one place while taking up the 15 hours of funded entitlement
- is extended to cover additional hours for three and four year olds if parents are eligible to claim for a further 15 hours of additional funded entitlement
- is extended to cover additional hours if parents are paying for childcare
The Disability Access Fund
The Disability Access Fund provides an additional £938 each year to help early years providers adjust their settings that support disabled children. It’s available to all children who get DLA and go to an EY childcare provider for their free education entitlement.
The Disability Access Fund information sheet (pdf, 217KB) tells you how to claim this funding.
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