Section 2 - Booked full-day places
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A time series of the number of booked full-day places, broken down by provider type.
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Data set details
- Theme
- Early years
- Publication
- Childcare and early years provider survey
- Release
- Reporting year 2025
- Release type
- Number of rows
- 30
- Geographic levels
- National
- Indicators
- Number of bookings
- Unweighted base
- Filters
- Provider and session type
- Time period
- 2019 to 2025
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| time_period | time_identifier | geographic_level | country_code | country_name | provider_type | number | unweighted_base |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Calendar year | National | E92000001 | England | Nursery class childcare settings | 156300 | 1212 |
| 2025 | Calendar year | National | E92000001 | England | Maintained nursery school | 16000 | 84 |
| 2025 | Calendar year | National | E92000001 | England | All school-based providers | 172300 | 1296 |
| 2025 | Calendar year | National | E92000001 | England | All group-based providers | 651500 | 3622 |
| 2025 | Calendar year | National | E92000001 | England | Childminders | 73600 | 3372 |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| number | Number of bookings |
| provider_type | Provider and session type |
| unweighted_base | Unweighted base |
Footnotes
- All figures have been rounded to the nearest 100. They may not add up to totals due to rounding.
- In 2024 and 2025 figures, where providers report that they "don't know" the number of booked full-day places that they have they have been assumed, for the purpose of estimating regional and England totals, to have the median number of booked places for providers of their type. See the "Methodology change" section for a description of the impact that "imputing" missing data in this way has
- The method used to weight group-based provider responses to the Survey changed in 2025. Figures for 2024 have been revised so that they can be compared with 2025 figures. The biggest impact of this change is on "volume" measures (such as the total and mean number of registered and booked group-based provider places and total and mean number of group-based provider staff). See the "Methodology change" section for further details.
- Estimates of the number of booked full-day school-based provider places in 2023 are not shown. Although this information was collected on the Survey the estimate is considered unreliable.
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Email: EY.AnalysisANDResearch@education.gov.ukContact name: John Canlin