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28 January 2025

Funding

25/26 Annual Budget Summaries

In accordance with the Early Years National Funding Formula (EYNFF) the local authority is required to give those settings delivering funding to 9 month+,  2, 3 and 4 year olds a budget at the start of the financial year. To do so we ask that settings enter their estimate submissions for Summer 2025, Autumn 2025 and Spring 2026 via the Ehub.

Estimates open on 20 January 2025

Be aware that the estimates open span 2 academic terms 2024-25 and 2025-26

Please be mindful that from September 2025 all working parents for 9 month + and 2 year old will be entitled to 30 funded hours please take this into consideration when submitting your estimates.

Estimates for the Autumn 2025 and Spring 2026 term will reopen to make amendments further in the year (please refer to the important date sheet)

Deadline date for submissions is Friday 7 February 2025

News & Events

Beep Beep Day 2025

Join schools, nurseries, playgroups and youth groups across the UK taking part to learn about road safety with children aged 2-7. This is a fantastic opportunity to engage with children and their parents and carers about how to stay safe on our roads.

Brake will once again provide a free action pack, full of ideas and fun activities that focus on three important road safety topics:

1. Holding hands with a grown-up when walking near roads
2. Crossing roads at safe places with a grown-up
3. Using a child seat when travelling by car

Sign up now at https://www.brake.org.uk/beep.

Free road safety resources for children aged 2-7

Our free action pack resources include activities, colouring sheets, postcards and letters home, certificates, social media toolkits and more. The action pack is illustrated with characters from Aardman’s beloved Timmy Time, adding fun to the learning.

Saving little lives on our roads

It's not nice to hear but every day six children are killed or seriously injured on UK roads – that’s equivalent to a whole class of children every single week. Road safety is a great topic for activities that can really engage, protect and benefit young children, and Beep Beep! Days are a perfect way to do it.

Last year more than 4,000 schools, nurseries and childminders signed up on behalf of more than 200,000 children, making it Brake’s most popular Beep Beep! Day yet.

Information and Consultations

Department for Education Early Years Provider Roadshows for 2025

January 2025 sees the return of The Department for Education Early Education and Childcare Provider Regional Roadshows for group-based setting leaders and managers.  

These roadshows are your opportunity to find out more about current and future policy, delivery and strategy, including the Best Start in Life pillar of the Opportunity Mission and the expansion of childcare to all eligible working parents of children over the age of 9 months, and to share your views, ideas, best practice and the challenges that settings face.  

The date for the Yorkshire and Humber  2025 roadshow is below.  

You can register your interest for the regional roadshows via the register your interests form. 

The newly refreshed Childcare Works Provider HUB!

The HUB, now offers more resources than ever before. With a refreshed, user-friendly layout, navigating the HUB has never been easier.

Click here for a full PDF overview of currently available resources, created for you to include in your provider newsletters, forums, and social media posts. This includes our latest resources:

• Actionable strategies to attract and retain high-quality staff for effective recruitment and retention - Recruitment and Retention in Early Years and Wraparound Provision
• Practical tips for effective leadership and team building - Characteristics of Effective Leadership 
• Strategies to attract new families and retain existing ones through effective marketing and promotion - Marketing and Promotion - Finding and Keeping Customers 
• How to conduct difficult discussions openly and constructively to enhance relationships with parents and staff - Supporting Providers to have Courageous Conversations 
• How to develop fair and transparent charging structures, the importance of monitoring and reviewing charging practices, as well as invoicing good practice - Invoicing, Consumables, and Charging Structures 

Reporting Notifiable & Infectious Diseases

Details and a reminder below of our reporting system for notifiable and infectious diseases through our Public Health Team- they will report any cases to Public Health England negating the statutory requirement for you to do so.

As part of our ongoing support for our settings, Public Health working with the Families Information Service and the Early Years Team have developed such systems to aid our ability to understand the changing level of disease and respond quickly to protect the population- and so we are asking you to notify us of communicable diseases, such are coronavirus, influenza and others; full list here.

The below link is a simple form which enables us to capture information from you about the case, their contacts and risk assess the situation. Public Health colleagues and the Early Years Team, working together where needed, will then be able to offer the advice and support to you and the family.

Following feedback from providers, the form has been streamlined to make is quicker and easier to be able to report a case

https://east-riding-self.achieveservice.com/service/Infectious_disease_notification

EYPCF Participation Coordinator

If you have any information you would like adding to the Mailout please send by email to fish@eastriding.gov.uk