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2 July 2025

FISH Reminder

Childcare Sufficiency Assessment: to be returned by Friday 11 July – more details below

Funding

Early Years Provider Agreement & Parental Agreement 

Please find enclosed in this mailout the local authority Early Years Provider Agreement and Parent Declaration form for September 2025. To support with the implementation of this please can all provider agreements be signed and returned back to the local authority, using the FISH email address,  FISH@eastriding.gov.uk, no later than Friday 25^th July.

If you have any questions, please contact FISH@eastriding.gov.uk.

Final provider agreement September 2025.docx

Annex A and B Setting and Parental agreement.docx

Privacy notice - annex C.docx

Annex D DfE Invoicing example.docx

Funding Adjustment Forms

We are experiencing an issue with receiving adjustment forms via the Ehub. When these are submitted you should receive an email from fee.earlyyears@eastriding.gov.uk acknowledging this (please note this may not be instantly). If you have not received this notification please can you contact FISH and we can raise it with the team and advise next steps. This only effects the ones submitted for the Summer 2025 term.

Autumn Term 2025 Estimates

Estimates for the Autumn term 2025 are open for submission for all funding streams. This also means that you can add/amend ones already submitted for the Autumn term in your annual budget summaries earlier this year.

Please be mindful that the new funding comes into force from September and parents eligible for the working parent entitlement for 9 month+ and 2 year funding will increase for 15 to 30 funded hours. Parent/carers must keep their code reconfirmed and valid for the term they are accessing the funding in.

Deadline date for submissions is 11^th July 2025

Early Years Expansion Grant – Remittance information

You may have noticed an additional line on your recent remiattance the grant referred to is the Early Years Expansion Grant, this grant has been paid along with the 9 month+ and 2 year old estimate payments from the beginning of April but we have previously been unable to show it separately on the remittance advice. The below information was advised on 8^th April in our mailout:

Additional funding has been provided to local authorities in 2025-26 to support early years providers as they deliver the final phase of expansion to the working parent entitlements from September 2025. This funding is being distributed via the early years expansion grant which will be paid to local authorities, who in turn will pass this funding through to providers. Eligible providers will receive additional funding within their monthly payments based on an additional hourly rate of £0.13p per hour for 2 year olds and £0.17p per hour for Under 2s.

9 month+, 2 year and 3&4 year funding code

All codes have been run through the ESC checker on the system and the information is

now reflected on the summary page of your Ehub (but this only refers to exisiting children who have claimed the funding previously) therefore codes should still be checked using the eligiblity checker open throughout the year on the Ehub.

Childcare Sufficiency Assessment- Autumn Term 2025

As the final roll-out of the childcare expansion heads towards September,  the Local Authority has a statutory duty to secure sufficient childcare for working parents. As we work towards our 2025-6 Childcare Sufficiency Report, we want to show a clear picture of the available childcare within the East Riding, with the introduction of the new funding entitlements this has become an even greater importance.

To ensure this is accurate and precise we are asking all settings to complete the attached excel spreadsheet and return via e-mail to fish@eastriding.gov.uk by Friday 11th July 2025

We have tried to make it as simple and easy to complete as possible and whilst we appreciate some of the data won’t be 100% accurate as children may start/leave after this date and that you may still not know your final numbers for September, it will help us greatly moving forward.

PVI AND SCHOOLS PLACES AND TAKE UP AUTUMN 2025.xlsx

CHILDMINDER CHILDCARE EARLY EDUCATION PLACES AND UPTAKE AUTUMN 2025.xlsx

News & Events

Alpaca walking and kayaking join the free activities for children this Summer

This summer holidays, there is a host of free, fun, creative activities for children and young people receiving benefits related free school meals.  The sessions will take place across the East Riding and include musical themed dance workshops, crafts, sports camp as well as outdoor adventure sessions and animal experiences.

Sessions are available to book now through Plinth, the centralised booking system at https://dub.sh/lEP5tXl or by using the QR code below.

New to Holiday Activities and Food in 2025 include junior lifeguard training, water polo, kayaking, graffiti workshops and alpaca walking.  The programme also welcomes back music activities, trampolining, parkour and sessions at new aerial hi-ropes adventure, The Edge in Bridlington.

The activities are all part of the Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme, which is funded by the Department for Education, and is primarily aimed at those aged between five and sixteen, and who are in receipt of benefits-related free school meals.  A limited number of places are also available to children and young people who have an education, health and care plan (EHCP), regardless of their free school meals status.

The majority of sessions are four hours long and each child and young person can book up to sixteen sessions for free in the summer holidays, subject to availability.  Places are booked on a first come, first served basis. Sign up to the newsletter to be the first to hear about the programme at eryc.link/haf 

If parents are experiencing any problems booking activities, they are advised to use the live chat function on the Plinth website or contact the HAF team at haf@eastriding.gov.uk

Information and Consultations

Humberside Police Announcement – WatsApp concern

Humberside Police would like to make you aware of the following WhatsApp group which young people have been accessing.

There is great concern over "THESE GUYS ARE BAD" and "ALL THE BAD GUYS" WhatsApp groups that have been created by school children in the Humberside region. These groups have over 180 members and the users exchange racist, violent, and pornographic content between themselves. This has become a problem with local children of a primary school age accessing this content. A number of unknown Paedophiles are also using these groups to gain access to children.

Should anyone have any information about the group please contact:

Humberside Police on 101, Humberside Police website Report a crime | Humberside Police

or Anonymously via Independent UK charity taking crime information anonymously | Crimestoppers

RSBC upcoming news and activities - Summer 2025

Activities and events – Royal Society for Blind Children - Visualsoft

Public Health – Newsletter

Public Health Protection newsletter.docx

If you require any health protection support please do not hesitate to contact the health protection inbox at healthprotection@eastriding.gov.uk

Parent and Toddler Groups

Do you run a parent / toddler group or any activities for babies, children and young people?

We’d love to hear from you, so we can keep our Family Services Directory listings up to date with the groups and activities taking place in the East Riding.

Drop us an email with the details to fish@eastriding.gov.uk and we’ll add it to the website.

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