Early Years Budget Grant (EYBG)

Overview

The Early Years Budget Grant (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. There are separate amounts for Maintained Nursery Schools and for other providers.

Surrey County Council (SCC) are proposing to distribute it in the following way:

• to the 4 Maintained Nursery Schools - distribute the maintained nursery schools amount, reflecting the different basis of DFE funding*
• to maintained schools with nurseries*

*No evidence required as employing a qualified teacher is mandatory

• to any academy school with a nursery, who can evidence that they employ a qualified teacher in the nursery on teacher's pay and conditions, at national pay rates or more 
• and any private, voluntary and independent nursery who can evidence that they employ a qualified teacher in the nursery on teacher's pay and conditions

We will distribute this supplement using a standard hourly rate for 3-4 year olds only, for all eligible providers.

Please note that there is a requirement that teachers access the teachers’ pension scheme at national (London fringe) pay rates or more.  

More information can be found here.