Official partners
Current partners
Famly - the UK’s leading early years software that significantly reduces daily workloads, and strengthens parent partnerships. Send instant messages, pictures and updates to parents, manage staff, create and send invoices, compile and update learning journals, manage finances and payments, and much, much more! It’s the all-in-one platform to give you back time to spend on what really matters: the children.
As an Alliance member, you get 50% off your first six months of Famly's Premium or Professional packages
in the EYA portal to claim your discount!
CURA Safeguarding provides a quick and simple way to log concerns and greatly minimises the risk of communication failures that could lead to a vulnerable individual being exposed to harm. CURA uses clearance levels, staff-to-student affinities, incident severity, elapsed time and accumulation of low-level concerns to create an effective referral system – informing relevant staff of safeguarding issues as they arise.
It assures staff and pastoral carers that their concerns are being looked into and peace of mind that their obligations to those in their care are being met.
Alliance members get 10% discount - just have your membership number to hand when you request a quote from CURA.
Hallmark Education and the Alliance have teamed up to offer people working in the early years sector the chance to access a range of NCFE CACHE-accredited qualifications free of charge (subject to meeting the funding eligibility criteria). This is a fantastic opportunity to promote the continuing professional development of yourself and/or your staff.
Earn free funding for your pre-school, nursery, or childminders with easyfundraising. As a fundraising platform, easyfundraising exists to turn everyday online spending into forces for good. They do this by partnering with over 6,000 online retailers who want to give back to your setting for free. Join over 6,800 early years settings that use easyfundraising; to fundraise for those little extras that help their children thrive. Alliance members can and start receiving funds every time their supporters shop online.
St John Ambulance
Working in partnership with St John Ambulance, the nation’s leading first aid training provider, the Early Years Alliance is delighted to offer this innovative two-day blended course which covers emergency situations that can happen while looking after young children and babies.
The course is for anyone working with young children such as pre-school leaders, nursery and childcare managers, creche owners, children’s centre managers, childminding professionals and baby & toddler groups including those working towards an Early Years Educator qualification.
Alliance members get 20% off the course price when they book a scheduled course taking place at a St John Ambulance venue.
RSA is one of the world’s longest-serving general insurance companies. Our products help our customers to manage life’s risks and make things right when they go wrong.
We’ve been at the heart of the insurance industry for more than 300 years. Today, we serve in excess of 9 million customers around the world.
You may already know us through the Early Years Alliance – but you may not know that we also underwrite Morethan Insurance, as well as several UK retail partners, such as John Lewis, Nationwide and Tesco.
We have a long history of insuring the early years sector, so we understand what you do and what protection you need. Today we insure more than 6,500 early year’s settings, from childminding businesses, nurseries and pre-schools to baby and toddler groups.
Whatever your early years provision, it’s essential to have the right level of insurance cover in place for common and worst-case scenarios.  Reviewing insurance for your early years setting can seem like a hassle, but if you haven’t checked your policy for a couple of years, you could be missing essential cover, over-paying or under-insured - resulting in a financial gap in the event of a claim.
Together with the Early Years Alliance, we can help you build a flexible package of standard cover and optional extras to protect the little ones in your care, your staff, your business assets, and your reputation.
For more information, or for a quote, please visit eyalliance.org.uk/insurance or call the Early Years Alliance on 020 7697 2595.
Law-Call
Available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, Law-Call, provides Alliance early years settings, childminders and baby and toddler group members with telephone access to free specialist legal advice.
The service is provided in a confidential, sympathetic and jargon-free manner, on areas of law associated with the successful running of your childcare service such as:
- Employment and HR issues, including guidance on how to handle disciplinary matters, termination of an employee’s contract, sickness absence within the workplace, statutory rights and employers obligations
- Health and safety matters
- Property related advice on licences or lease agreements
- Contractual disputes with suppliers
- Debts and debt recovery
- Tax and VAT issues relating to the setting
- Data protection
- Charity law.
Legal issues are often resolved immediately following telephone advice from the Law-Call service. If this is not possible due to the nature or complexity of the case, the lawyer speaking with you can advise on the best way forward.
Protecting your interests
We always carefully select partner organisations or companies which best protect and promote the interests of our members and the families they support. We also choose partners that support or reflect our values and ethics to avoid any potential conflicts of interest and risk to reputation.