Resources and tools

Our Early Years Pupil Premium guide is a living resource. We will continually update it with additional evidence, written examples, and videos.

This section includes practical tools to help you to develop your Early Years Pupil Premium strategy and put it into action.

In the future we will also include further examples by working with a range of settings, including childminders.

A four-step planning tool to help you make the best spending choices

Early years Pupil Premium planning tool

This planning tool introduces key findings from high-quality research to help you reduce the learning gap between children from lower-income backgrounds and others.

A practice review of current awareness, use, and decision-making in settings

Early years Pupil Premium practice review

Exploring how settings identify eligible children and claim EYPP, how the funding is used, how spending decisions are made, and how settings record and monitor its effectiveness.

Early years Pupil Premium planning tool

Early years Pupil Premium practice review

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