Education Portal

The Education Portal is used for the administration of early education places. Access the portal.

All early education funding is administered through the portal; providers must have access if they are delivering funded places in schools, private and independent settings.

Access to the Portal is required to:

• Submit a headcount form which is the termly child level funding claim
• Check eligibilty for 2 year old funding for disadvantaged children
• Check eligibility codes for the Working Parent Entitlement
• Apply for Early Years Pupil Premium and Disability Access Fund
• Securely exchange information with the Early Years Service

To use the portal, providers should be an approved early education provider and an access form must be completed each individual staff member who uses the portal. Information about portal access and provider responsibilities is available.

User guides

Step by step guides are available to help you use the portal:

• Account set up and log in 
  Use this to get started with setting up your portal account.
• Using the live register 
  This guide explains how the live register works, how to add children and check eligibility
• Early Years Pupil Premium and Disability Access Fund
  Use this guide to understand eligibility checks for this EYPP & DAF and how to claim this funding
• Working Parent Entitlement Codes 
  A complete guide to  codes including; how to check validity, code audits and understanding code flags
• Submitting a headcount form
  Use this to help you submit the termly headcount form
• Submitting a two-year-old mid term joiner
  Use this to help you submit a mid term joiner for newly eligible disadvantaged 2 year olds
• Updating staff details
  This guide explains how to update your staff details on the portal
• Two-year-old Funding Application - Guide for families
  A guide for parent / carers submitting a disadvantaged 2 year old funding application on the parent portal.

Video guides

These guides talk through different portal actions.

• Checking a two-year-old reference number is valid
  Use this for help checking reference numbers for the 2 year old 'disadvantaged' funding
• Adding a funded two-year-old to the live register
  This video shows how to add a child  accessing the   2 year old 'disadvantaged' funding
• Removing a child from the live register
  Use to help you remove a child from the live register
• Updating staff details
  This video explains how to update staff details on the portal

Help and support

For support using the portal, including any training requirements email the Early Education Team at early.education@trafford.gov.uk so that the correct member of the team can be assigned to help.

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