Early years budget grant (EYBG) 2024 to 2025
Guidance for local authorities and early years providers on the early years budget grant (EYBG) for September 2024 to March 2025
Applies to England
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The guidance is for:
* local authorities
* early years providers
* schools
It relates to all local authorities that fund early years provision in England.
We are providing £34 million in additional funding to local authorities in 2024 to 2025 to support early years providers with their costs, following the recent teacher pay award. This funding is part of the almost £1.2 billion announced by the department following confirmation of the 2024 teachers’ pay award.
Additional funding for early years providers will be distributed through a new grant, the early years budget grant (EYBG), in 2024 to 2025 (covering September 2024 to March 2025).
Methodology and operational guidance
The EYBG methodology and operational guidance explains how EYBG rates have been calculated, and how funding is distributed to local authorities. This guidance is supported by accompanying step-by-step tables.
Conditions of grant
The EYBG is to support early years providers who are delivering the government’s early years entitlements with their costs, following the recent teacher pay award, for the period September 2024 to March 2025. The EYBG is subject to conditions of grant.
Allocations
We will publish EYBG allocations for each local authority for the September 2024 to March 2025 period by the end of October 2024. We will make the single payment for EYBG on 29 November 2024.
Further details
You can find out more about the existing formulae used to calculate the original 2024 to 2025 rates for the early years block of the dedicated schools grant (DSG) in the 2024 to 2025 early years funding formulae: technical note.
For information on the core schools budget grant (CSBG) allocations for mainstream schools (for the 5 to 16-year-old age range), special schools and alternative provision schools in 2024 to 2025, please see the CSBG guidance.
Updates to this page
Last updated 19 September 2024 + show all updates
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We have amended section 4.2 of the conditions of grant to clarify the date by which funds must not be carried forward.
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First published.