Education Portal

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

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 two-year old funding
• Check 30 hours codes
• 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 a portal access form must be completed for the staff member(s) access is required for.

Help using the portal

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

• Account set up and log in
• Using the live register - use this guide for help with adding children to the live register
• Adding a funded two-year-old to the live register - video guide
• Checking a two-year-old reference number is valid -  video guide
• Removing a child from the live register - video guide
• Early Years Pupil Premium and Disability Access Fund Checks
• Working Parent Entitlement Codes 
• Working Parent Entitlement - video guide
• Submitting a headcount form - guide for schools
• Submitting a headcount form -  video guide for schools
• Submitting the headcount and early years census - guide for PVI providers
• Submitting the headcount and early years census - video guide for PVI providers
• Submitting a two-year-old mid term joiner
• Updating staff details
• Updating staff details - video guide
• Two-year-old Funding Application - Guide for parents

For support using the portal, 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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