Providing funded early education

If you provide, or plan to provide, funded early education for children aged 9 months to 4 years, you’ll find all the necessary forms here.

We also have web pages with more information on:

• Providing funded early education for two year olds (FEET)
• Providing funded early education for three and four year olds
• Providing the early years funded entitlement for working parents
• Stretched term funding guidance 2023
• How to become a funded early education provider
• Funded early education useful dates 2025 to 2026
• Early Years Provider Agreement from 1 September 2025 to 31 August 2026
• Providers Partnership Policy
• Early Years and Education System (EYES) - Funding

Files available to download

• Declaration form - child year 2024 to 2025 funded early education (MS Word)
  This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology. Contact EYcommissioningteam@surreycc.gov.uk to request support or alternative formats.
• Declaration form - child year 2025 to 2026 funded early education (MS Word)
  This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology. Contact EYcommissioningteam@surreycc.gov.uk to request support or alternative formats.
• Declaration form - child year 2025 to 2026 funded early education - blank printable version (PDF)
  Blank printable version of the funded entitlement Declaration form Child Year 2025 to 2026 for providers of funded early education and childcare
• Early education funding declaration form guidance (PDF)
  Guidance on how to complete the declaration form to allow early years providers to claim funded entitlement, including sample forms.
• Working Parents Entitlement Eligibility consent form - School use only (PDF)
  Form for schools to use to collect parent's consent to share their information with the local authority
• Working parents entitlement eligibility consent form – Childcare (PDF)
  Form for childcare settings to use to collect parent's consent to share their information with the local authority.
• BACS Details Form 2024 to 2025 (PDF)
  Use this form to request to have payments by BACS or tell us of a change to your bank details. This is only available if your account is eight numbers or less.
• Change of hours form FEET - for parents - 2024 to 2025 (PDF)
  Parents should use this form to tell you if they want to change the number of hours of Funded Early Education for Two year olds (FEET) they claim for their child. Settings must keep these forms.
• Change of hours form Universal - 3 and 4 year olds - for parents - 2024 to 2025 (PDF)
  Parents should use this form to tell you if they want to change the number of hours of Funded Early Education for 3 and 4 year olds they claim for their child. Settings must keep these forms.
• Change of hours form Working Parent Entitlement for parents 2024 to 2025 (PDF)
  Parents should use this form to change the number of Funded Early Education hours for Working Parent Entitlement they claim for their child
• Data Correction Form - Child Universal 3 and 4 year olds - 2024 to 2025 (PDF)
  Use this form to correct information about a Universal 3- or 4-year-old child that you are not able to correct yourself.
• Data Correction Form - Child Working Parent Entitlement - 2024 to 2025 (PDF)
  Parents should use this form to tell you if they want to change the number of hours of Funded Early Education for Working Parent Entitlement they claim for their child. Settings must keep these forms.
• Data Correction Form Child - 2 year olds - 2024 to 2025 (PDF)
  Use this form to correct information about a (FEET) two year-old child that you are not able to correct yourself on the funding portal
• Custom Dates Form 2024 to 2025 (PDF)
  Please use this form if your term dates fall outside Surrey term-time dates in new EYES system. Please return completed form to Funded Early Education Team.
• Charging guidance for the delivery of funded entitlements 2024 to 2025 (PDF)
  Supplementary guidance to support childcare providers when interpreting and applying the regulations to their charging arrangements.
• Charging guidance for the delivery of funded entitlements 2025 to 2026 (PDF)
  Supplementary guidance to support providers when interpreting and applying the regulations to their charging arrangements.
• Funded Early Years Education Declaration Form Guidance for Parents 2024 to 2025 (PDF)
  his guidance is to help parents understand the Declaration Form that they are signing to receive funded early years education for their child.
• Surrey Provider Agreement updates 2025 to 2026 (PDF)
  This document highlights any significant updates to the Surrey Provider Agreement including the updated statutory guidance from the DfE.
• Surrey Provider Agreement September 2025 to August 2026 (PDF)
  The Provider Agreement outlines the terms and conditions under which providers deliver funded early education and childcare entitlements to eligible children.

In this section

• Early Years and Education System (EYES) - Funding
• Providing funded early education for two year olds
• Providing funded early education for three and four year olds
• Providing the early years funded entitlement for working parents
• How to become a funded early education provider
• Early Years Phase Council
• Early Years Pupil Premium - information for childcare professionals
• Providers Partnership Policy
• Funded early education useful dates 2025 to 2026
• Provider Agreement from 1 September 2025 to 31 August 2026