Early Years Special Educational Needs Inclusion Funding (EY SENIF)
Inclusion Support in Early Years Funding (ISEY)
Funding for your child’s free early education entitlement is set by each local authority and will depend on your child’s age. In addition to the basic rate of funding for children according to their age, each local authority has an Early Years Special Educational Needs Inclusion Fund ( EY SENIF) to support Early Years settings to include children accessing a funded place; who have emerging and identified SEND.
ISEY, Inclusion Support in Early Years, is the local authority’s early years inclusion fund and is currently set at £4 million of which £3.750,000 is passed directly through to providers.
Applications can be made by private, voluntary and independent settings, by childminders, as well as by maintained nursery schools who receive early education funding from Birmingham local authority, provided that all eligibility criteria are met.
Applications for this funding can only be made by settings where there is parent/carer consent. Allocations are considered and made by a multi-agency Early Years Decision Making Group. All eligible settings regularly receive a copy of the criteria and application process so you can find out more about ISEY directly from your child’s early years provider, if this is a childminder, PVI setting, or Nursery School. If you are an eligible setting and have not received this information then please email areasencoteam@birmingham.gov.uk
Early Years Pupil Premium
The Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP) is additional funding for early years settings to improve the education they provide for eligible 3 and 4 year olds.
An early years provider or setting is any organisation offering education for children aged under 5 years old, including nurseries and childminders.
Children must receive free early education in order to attract EYPP funding. They do not have to take up the full 570 hours of early education they are entitled to in order to get EYPP.
Disability Access Fund
The Disability Access Fund (DAF) is funding for early years providers to support children with disabilities or special educational needs. It aids access to early years places by supporting providers in making reasonable adjustments to their settings.