Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will ensure that the findings of Ofsted inspections on whether providers spend funds allocated for their Early Years Pupil Premium effectively are made publicly available.

Where at least one child in an early years setting is eligible for additional funding, such as the Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP), Ofsted will track and assess how effectively that funding has been spent when gathering all of the inspection evidence necessary to judge the overall effectiveness of the provider. All Ofsted reports are published and made available on their website. The specific findings on how the EYPP is spent, may be part of the published report but Ofsted has the discretion not to publish such findings in the public inspection report in every case, for example to preserve confidentiality where only small numbers of children attract the funding.

We are currently conducting a Study of Early Education and Development (SEED) into the effectiveness of the EYPP and also a survey to explore how providers use their early entitlement funding, including the EYPP, to address disadvantage and deprivation within their settings. Both reports are due for completion in the new year.