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Early years financial incentive payment service

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Accessibility statement

This accessibility statement applies to the Early Years Financial Incentive Payment.

This website is run by the Department for Education. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:

We've also made the website text as simple as possible to understand.

AbilityNet (opens in a new tab) has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.

How accessible this website is

We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible:

The focus while navigating with iOS VoiceOver may not always fall on an element on screen which could result in missed content

Feedback and contact information

If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille:

We'll consider your request and get back to you in 7 working days.

Reporting accessibility problems with this website

We're always looking to improve the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we're not meeting accessibility requirements, contact: EY.Financial-Incentives@education.gov.uk

Enforcement procedure

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is responsible for enforcing the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018 (the 'accessibility regulations'). If you're not happy with how we respond to your complaint, contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (opens in a new tab).

Technical information about this website's accessibility

The Department for Education is committed to making its websites accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

Compliance status

This website is partially compliant with the WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) version 2.2 AA standard, due to the following non-compliances (and/or) the following exemptions.

Non-accessible content

The content is non-accessible for the following reason(s):

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

Whilst navigating with iOS VoiceOver enabled, sometimes when navigating between pages, the focus may not be on an element on the page and may require the page to be interacted with before being swiped through. This fails WCAG 2.2 success criterion 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value. This issue is believed to be an issue with iOS VoiceOver and is unable to be fixed.

Disproportionate burden

We have determined that there is disproportionate burden to meet all the requirements for the following reasons:

Making improvements would exceed budget for the year and leave the department unable to do other work - and would not significantly improve things for disabled users.

The content is not within the scope of the accessibility regulations

PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 are out of scope of the regulations.

What we're doing to improve accessibility

We have conducted external accessibility testing and will continue to enhance accessibility as we update our service.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared on 5 June 2025. It was last reviewed on 5 June 2025.

This website was last tested on 9 May 2025. The test was carried out by Zoonou.

Zoonou used  WCAG-EM to define a representative selection of pages and test approach.

Accessibility statement version: 2.0.0