Funding criteria, deadline dates and monitoring forms

Criteria includes:

• private, voluntary, independent and school providers
• must be based in Worcestershire
• offer early years provision
• are not currently judged as 'Inadequate' or 'Requires Improvement' by Ofsted
• the Early Years providers must provide places for children presenting additional needs and or disabilities aged from 0 to 5 years old

Please note:

If a child is in receipt of NEF Funding (2, 3 and 4-year-olds) and you are applying for GR2, GR3 and GR4 then the inclusion supplement should be applied for via the Provider Portal and payments will be included within the Actual NEF payments. 

Applications are required using the online inclusion funding application form for:

• 0 to 5 non-NEF – for children who are not yet accessing their NEF due to their age
• GR4 + Challenge – where a child is in receipt of GR4 but the provider wishes to request a ‘top up’ based on the child’s needs and one to one staffing requirements throughout the majority of the sessions.
• Exceptional Early Years Funding

Online applications must be made via online forms, information about monitoring forms can be found further down this page. 

For information on the application process, see:

• Funding application process

Download: Local Inclusion Fund Criteria (PDF)

In order to process funding requests, we must receive funding applications by the specified deadline dates. 

Download: Local Inclusion Funding deadline dates (PDF)

Please note:

All funding applications require a termly monitoring form to be completed. There is no exception.

The aim of this process is to monitor the impact of the funding upon the child’s progress.

Failure to submit your monitoring form will result in funding being withheld.

The forms are monitoring the impact of the funding in the same term of which you are completing it.

Completing a monitoring form without completing an application form will result in non-payment.

Monitoring Form Dates for Completion

The date ranges to complete and submit your monitoring forms are:

• Spring Term: Between the 1 to 15 February each year
• Summer Term: Between the 1 to 15 June each year
• Autumn Term: Between the 1 to 15 November each year

The monitoring forms need to be completed within a set time each term. The forms will be available for limited time periods only. Before and after these dates, the forms will not be available to complete.

Each termly monitoring form will be accessible immediately below this text. If the space below this text is empty, the window for providers to complete the termly funding monitoring has closed. If you have missed this deadline, please contact eyinclusion@worcestershire.gov.uk.