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A provider-led voice for early years settings across Lancashire.
Lancashire Early Years Partnership brings providers together to share evidence, raise concerns early, and shape practical routes forward for children, families and settings.
“Alone, change can feel out of reach. Together, it becomes a path we can walk.”
Speaking as one, stronger together.
About LEYP
LEYP exists to give Lancashire early years providers a clear, constructive and united voice, so decisions about funding, SEND support, sustainability and quality are shaped with the people delivering early education every day.
Lancashire Early Years Partnership is a provider-led network for early years settings across Lancashire. We bring together PVI nurseries, pre-schools, childminders, maintained nursery settings and community providers to share evidence, raise concerns early, and propose practical solutions.
Our principle: decisions should be made with providers, not simply handed down to providers.
What we do
- Collect provider evidence
Capture practical intelligence from settings across districts. - Raise issues early
Bring concerns forward before they become crises. - Propose workable routes
Offer provider-shaped solutions for implementation. - Build cross-sector trust
Support collaboration between maintained, PVI and childminder provision.
Current priorities
- Fair and sustainable funding routes for early years settings
- SEND/HNB access that is timely, clear and equitable
- Workforce cost pressures and retention
- Stronger visibility for childminder voices
- PVI sustainability and maintained/PVI collaboration
- Protecting quality while supporting provider viability
Lancashire quality evidence is strong across PVI, childminder and maintained provision by Ofsted; providers now need support to sustain that quality.
Funding transparency & SEND support
Providers challenged the original 3% Early Years central retention proposal, and the final Schools Forum position changed.
The next constructive question is transparency over Early Years money held for SEND/HNB: how much is held, who decides, who can access it, when it reaches settings, and what outcomes it buys.
LEYP is not alleging wrongdoing. We are asking for transparent, provider-shaped routes so support reaches children and settings in time.
Early Years funding timeline
This timeline shows why transparent, provider-shaped decisions matter for Early Years funding and SEND support in Lancashire.
Future member workspace
LEYP’s public site starts with representation and communication. A member workspace may follow once the partnership has confirmed its governance, privacy model and operating needs.
Meetings & summaries
Shared records and plain-English outcomes.
Agendas
Structured planning by priority and district.
Actions
Track owners, deadlines and progress.
Any member tools will be reviewed before launch: role-based access, privacy controls, and no autonomous external sending.
Join the provider network
LEYP is preparing its formal email route. If you are an early years provider, childminder, nursery, pre-school or maintained setting in Lancashire, please check back here for the confirmed contact address.
The site does not currently collect personal data through forms or cookies. A privacy notice will be published before any online enquiry form or mailing-list signup is enabled.
Contact route
Email setup in progress
No online data collection is active yet.