Disability Access Funding for three and four year olds
What is the Disability Access Fund?
A £615* payment paid each year to your chosen early education and childcare provider to make reasonable adjustments to support your child. This fund is for three and four year old children in a funded early education place who have a disability or special educational needs.
*There is a local agreement in Bradford for the fund to temporarily increase to £1000 for the 2022 to 2023 financial year.
How can it help your child?
The funding is to support your childcare provider in making reasonable adjustments that will benefit your child and the setting as a whole.
Please discuss with the childcare provider how they will use the money.
If your child:
- attends more than one setting, you will need to choose which childcare provider should receive the funding
- leaves the childcare place and the funding for the year is paid, the provider will not have to pay back any money.
- leaves and goes to a new provider, they will not receive a further Disability Access Fund payment until the following year.
Who can receive the funding?
To apply for the funding your child needs to:
- be three or four year old
- receive free early education hours at a childcare provider in Bradford
- receive Disability Living Allowance.
Do not apply for this fund if:
- your child is four years old and in a primary school reception class.
- goes to a childcare provider that is not in the Bradford Council area. If you are not sure please ask your childcare provider, you must then apply to that council. For example, you live in Menston and your childcare is in Guiseley. Guiseley is in Leeds district so you should apply for the fund through Leeds council website.
Apply now
To fill in this form you will need:
- proof that your child has Disability Living Allowance – an award letter
Apply now for Disability Access Funding
If you have any difficulties applying online, please call 01274 431386 for help.
How will the funding be paid?
A £615* payment will be made directly to your chosen childcare provider.
If your child attends more than one setting, you will need to choose which childcare provider should receive the funding.
*There is a local agreement in Bradford for the fund to temporarily increase to £1000 for the 2022 to 2023 financial year.
Disability Living Allowance
Find out more about Claiming Disability Living Allowance for a child.