EARLY YEARS FREE ENTITLEMENT
Academic Year 2008/09
KCC School Term Dates are:
Term 1 Monday 1 September till Friday 24 October 2008 (40 school days or 8 weeks)
Term 2 Monday 3 November till Friday 19 December 2008 (35 school days or 7 weeks)
Term 3 Monday 5 January to Friday 13 February 2009 (30 school days or 6 weeks)
Term 4 Monday 23 February to Friday 3 April 2009 (30 school days or 6 weeks)
Term 5 Monday 20 April to Friday 22 May 2009 (24 school days or 4 weeks & 4 days)
Term 6 Monday 1 June to Monday 20 July 2009 (36 school days or 7 weeks & 1 day)
The maintained school year is 39 weeks or 195 days long and schools close to pupils for 5 staff training days so pupils receive 190 days education. Funding from the DCSF for the PVI sector is only for 38 weeks but because many PVI providers try and open in line with their feeder schools we wish to make the free entitlement as flexible as possible by allowing PVI providers to offer the free entitlement for 190 days (38 weeks) across the academic year. Thus, KCC will pay PVI providers who deliver the free entitlement for 38 weeks across the academic year in the following pattern:
Terms 1&2 (Autumn) 2008 – 14 weeks
Terms 3&4 (Spring) 2009 – 12 weeks
Terms 5&6 (Summer) 2009 – 12 weeks
2008-09 PVI Calendar
Kent County Council has now determined the term dates for the school years 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12 following consultation - please click on the link below to be redirected
www.kent.gov.uk/education-and-learning/schools-and-sixth-form/exam-and-term-dates
Early Years Headcount – Terms 3 and 4 (Spring) 2009
Forms available to download from this site are not pre-populated with your setting’s details and you should write on your DCSF URN, Setting Name and Cluster prior to sending completed forms into Management Information.
Estimate Claim Letter Terms 3&4 (Spring) 2009
Estimate Claim Form Terms 3&4 (Spring) 2009
Parental Declaration Form
ADJUSTMENT CLAIMS
Adjustment Payments will be in bank accounts on Friday, 19 December 2008.
Adjustment Joiner Form Terms 1&2 (Autumn) 2008
OPERATIONAL GUIDANCE
Operational Guidelines for Administering the Free Entitlement
EYFE Fair Processing Notices
To meet the requirements of the 1998 Data Protection Act, the DCSF have issued guidance for PVI Providers in connection with Fair Processing. Providers should ensure all parents/carers of children eligible in the future receive the Fair Processing Notice.
EYFE Fair Processing Notice Guidance - October 2007
EYFE Fair Processing Notice - suggested text for parents (PDF file)
EYFE Fair Processing Notice - suggested text for parents (Word file)
LETTER FROM ALEX GAMBY
Free Entitlement - Free Entitlement Developments Letter November 2008
Free Entitlement - Sessions or Hours Letter Update January 2008
Free Entitlement - Sessions or Hours Letter July 2007
LETTER FROM BERNADETTE GIBBS - CHAIR OF KENT'S EY SUB GROUP
Letter from Chair of Kent's Early Years Sub Group - November 2008
DELEGATED CONDITIONS
Delegated Conditions April 2008
Letter from Alex Gamby
DCSF Code of Practice
DETERMINING ELIGIBILITY FOR A FREE PLACE
Local Authority starting dates for children claiming their free entitlement for the first time may vary from the nationally prescribed dates in the DCSF Code of Practice (page 20 para 7.1) due to locally determined school term dates. In Kent children become eligible to claim their free entitlement according to the table below.
A child born between: Will be eligible to claim the free entitlement in 1 April and 31 August (inclusive) The start of Term 1 following their third birthday (after Summer Holiday) until statutory school age. 1 September and 31 December (inclusive) The start of Term 3 following their third birthday (after Christmas/New Year Holiday) until statutory school age. 1 January and 31 March (inclusive) The start of Term 5 following their third birthday (after April Holiday) until statutory school age.
Cluster Map of Kent
Please email any enquiries to eyfe@kent.gov.uk