Early Years Entitlement (EYE)

Early Years Entitlement

Early Years Entitlement for Three and Four Year Olds

Available from the funded period after your child’s 3rd birthday.

The Universal entitlement is 570 hours across the year. A minimum of 2 hours and a maximum of 9.75 hours may be claimed in any one day. A maximum of 15 hours may be claimed during each week (based on 38 weeks). The entitlement can be ‘stretched’ over more than 38 weeks, with less than the maximum weekly hours being taken per week to enable the entitlement to be used across the whole year.

The maximum number of weeks that the funding can be ‘stretched’ over is 46 within Little Stars. (570 stretched over 46 = approximately 12 hours per week.

Parents may use more than one provider but no more than three over one week and no more than two in one day. You can only claim the maximum entitlement of hours per funding period in total.

2 Year Old Funding

Families with 2 year old children may be entitled to claim funding for up to 570 hours per year. A maximum of 15 Hours per week (based on a setting that is open for 38 weeks per year).

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30 Hour Extended Entitlement

For eligible working families, 3 and 4-year olds are entitled to an additional 570 funded hours (up to 30 hours per week or 1,140 hours in total, universal + extended across the year).
Parents can apply for the extended entitlement through the government Childcare Service via www.childcarechoices.gov.uk. A 30-hour eligibility code must be verified by the provider before an extended entitlement space can be provided for the child. Parents can start to access the extended entitlement the term after eligibility has been confirmed.

Update August 2021