Section 7 - Proportion of children with SEND
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A time series of the proportion of children registered with providers with SEND, 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
- 14
- Geographic levels
- National
- Indicators
- Percentage of children with SEND
- Unweighted base
- Filters
- Provider type
- Time period
- 2024 to 2025
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| time_period | time_identifier | geographic_level | country_code | country_name | provider_type | percentage | unweighted_base |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Calendar year | National | E92000001 | England | Nursery class childcare settings | 14 | 1339 |
| 2025 | Calendar year | National | E92000001 | England | Maintained nursery schools | 24 | 91 |
| 2025 | Calendar year | National | E92000001 | England | All school-based providers | 14 | 1430 |
| 2025 | Calendar year | National | E92000001 | England | Private group-based providers | 9 | 1271 |
| 2025 | Calendar year | National | E92000001 | England | Voluntary group-based providers | 13 | 604 |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| percentage | Percentage of children with SEND |
| provider_type | Provider type |
| unweighted_base | Unweighted base |
Footnotes
- This table shows the number of children with SEND as a proportion of the total number of children registered with providers. Figures cannot be compared with those published in previous years which showed this number as a proportion of the total number of registered childcare places that providers had.
- Prior to 2025, school-based providers were asked "how many children in your nursery have SEND". Some, however, appeared to have been including children registered in Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 (rather than just children attending nursery provision) in their figures. Therefore, in the 2025 survey, the wording of this question was changed, to ask school-based providers how many under school-aged children registered with their nursery provision had SEND. This may explain why a smaller proportion of children registered with school-based providers have SEND in 2025 than in 2024
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