Table 2- Daily attendance in early years settings during the COVID-19 outbreak
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- Theme
- COVID-19
- Publication
- Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
- Release
- Week 47 2020
- Release type
- Geographic levels
- National
- Indicators
- Children of critical workers attending early years settings
- Number of children attending early years settings
- Number of closed early years settings
- Filters
- Date
- Time period
- 2020 Week 16 to 2020 Week 47
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time_period | time_identifier | geographic_level | country_code | country_name | date | Open_settings | Proportion_of_settings_open | Closed_settings | Proportion_of_settings_closed | Settings_with_unknown_status | Proportion_of_settings_with_unknown_status | Children_attending | Vulnerable_children_attending | Children_of_critical_workers_attending |
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2020 | Week 16 | National | E92000001 | England | 16/04/2020 | 22000 | 32 | 39000 | 56 | 8000 | 12 | 65000 | 6000 | 59000 |
2020 | Week 17 | National | E92000001 | England | 20/04/2020 | 23000 | 33 | 39000 | 56 | 7000 | 11 | 67000 | 8000 | 59000 |
2020 | Week 17 | National | E92000001 | England | 23/04/2020 | 23000 | 34 | 39000 | 57 | 6000 | 9 | 74000 | 9000 | 64000 |
2020 | Week 18 | National | E92000001 | England | 27/04/2020 | 24000 | 34 | 39000 | 56 | 7000 | 10 | 74000 | 10000 | 64000 |
2020 | Week 18 | National | E92000001 | England | 30/04/2020 | 24000 | 35 | 39000 | 57 | 6000 | 9 | 79000 | 10000 | 69000 |
Variables in this data set
Variable name | Variable description |
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Children_attending | Number of children attending early years settings |
Children_of_critical_workers_attending | Children of critical workers attending early years settings |
Closed_settings | Number of closed early years settings |
date | Date |
Open_settings | Number of open early years settings |
Footnotes
- Thursday 29 October was during half term, and some settings, particularly those that are school-based, will have been closed. This may also have reduced demand for childcare.
- From 16 April to 18 June, the local authority early years survey was twice-weekly (Mondays and Thursdays). From 25 June, the survey changed to weekly (Thursdays).
- The following early years settings are included: group-based providers (Ofsted-registered nurseries and pre-schools), school-based providers (any pre-school provision run by school governing bodies, nursery classes in schools and maintained nursery school provision) and Ofsted-registered childminders.
- From 1 June, the government asked early years settings to begin welcoming back all children in addition to those of critical workers and vulnerable children. The methodology to adjust figures for non-response was also updated to reflect this change.
- Settings are asked to provide a count of the number of children of critical workers and the number of vulnerable children. For the total, it is assumed that in the early years data there is no overlap between the number of children of critical workers and the number of vulnerable children.
- All figures are adjusted for non-response. See accompanying document for full methodology.
- The summer term had ended in most schools by Friday 17 July. Ordinarily, fewer early years settings are open and fewer children are in attendance during school summer holidays. This is due to reduced demand for childcare and the closure of school-based settings.
- Thursday 28 May would usually have been half term, and some settings, particularly those that are school-based, will have been closed. This may also have reduced demand for childcare.
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