Data set from Outcomes for children in need, including children looked after by local authorities in England

National - Early Years Foundation Stage Profile (EYFSP)

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Published 10 April 2025

Last updated 3 July 2025

EYFSP development by special educational need, ethnicity, placement (children looked after only), period of care length (children looked after only) and social care group.

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Data set details

• Theme: Children's social care
• Publication: Outcomes for children in need, including children looked after by local authorities in England
• Release: Reporting year 2024
• Number of rows: 531
• Geographic levels: National
• Indicators:
  • Average number of early learning goals at expected level per child
  • Number of children assessed against the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile
  • Number of children at expected level across all early learning goals
• Filters:
  • Ethnicity
  • Length of period of care
  • Placement
• Time period: 2021/22 to 2023/24

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Data set preview

Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	social_care_group	sen_provision	ethnicity_major	placement	poc_length	t_pupils	avg_elgs	t_elg	pt_elg	t_comm_lang_lit	pt_comm_lang_lit	t_gld	pt_gld
202324	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	All pupils comparison	All pupils	All pupils	All pupils	All pupils	608220	14.1	402850	66.2	420680	69.2	411630	67.7
202324	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	All pupils comparison	All pupils	Asian/Asian British	All pupils	All pupils	78630	13.6	50850	64.7	53170	67.6	52590	66.9
202324	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	All pupils comparison	All pupils	Black/African/Caribbean/Black British	All pupils	All pupils	35890	13.1	21760	60.6	22830	63.6	22370	62.3
202324	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	All pupils comparison	All pupils	Mixed/Multiple ethnic groups	All pupils	All pupils	45900	14.2	31240	68.1	32520	70.8	31900	69.5
202324	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	All pupils comparison	All pupils	Other ethnic group	All pupils	All pupils	13920	13	8100	58.2	8510	61.2	8380	60.2

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 13 variables

Variable name	Variable description
avg_elgs	Average number of early learning goals at expected level per child
ethnicity_major	Ethnicity - Filter by ethnicity
placement	Placement - Filter by placement
poc_length	Length of period of care - Filter by length of period of care
pt_comm_lang_lit	Percentage of children at expected level in Communication & Language and Literacy areas of learning

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Footnotes

1. Within this section comparisons are made to 2021/22 and 2022/23, as significant changes to the EYFSP prior to the 2021/22 assessments prevent direct comparison with previous years.
2. Special educational needs (SEN) status is taken from the school census, the early years census, and the alternative provision census. More detailed information on the SEN data published within this release is available in the accompanying methodology.
3. For children looked after (CLA) for at least 12 months, due to definitional differences, there can be a small number where the period of care length at 31 March is less than 12 months (where the period of care start date is 1 April).

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