Equity Funding is one of the Ministry of Education's funding schemes for eligible licensed early childhood services to support and enrol vulnerable children in high quality ECE, retain these children in ECE and support their successful transition to school. This report complements ERO's report Use of Equity Funding in Pacific Early Childhood Services, October 2013 which presents findings about the use of Equity Funding in 15 Pacific early childhood services. In this evaluation, ERO investigated the extent to which 147 early childhood services reviewed in Term 4, 2012 and Term 1, 2013 effectively used Equity Funding to support children's participation in quality ECE. The findings are presented in relation to: the services' awareness of receiving Equity Funding; services' use of the different components of Equity Funding and the positive impacts for vulnerable children or groups; the extent to which services met the Ministry of Education's (Ministry) reporting requirements. (author abstract)