Data set from Early years education recovery

Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI) by local authority

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Published 4 July 2025

Last updated 4 July 2025

Number of practitioners registered and number of courses completed by practitioners by local authority from September 2020 to March 2025.

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Data set details

• Theme: Early years
• Publication: Early years education recovery
• Release: July 2025
• Number of rows: 306
• Geographic levels: Local authority
• Indicators:
  • Completed 1 or more course
  • Completed 2 or more courses
  • Completed 3 or more courses
• Time period: 2024 June to 2025 March

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	old_la_code	new_la_code	la_name	setting_type	registered_for_1_or_more_courses	registered_for_2_or_more_courses	registered_for_3_or_more_courses	registered_for_refresher_course	registered_for_support	completed_1_or_more_courses	completed_2_or_more_courses	completed_3_or_more_courses	completed_refresher_course	total_la_schools
2024	June	Local authority	E92000001	England	301	E09000002	Barking and Dagenham	Schools	191	102	73	4	50	140	83	47	2	45
2024	June	Local authority	E92000001	England	302	E09000003	Barnet	Schools	119	85	54	2	35	86	59	33	2	90
2024	June	Local authority	E92000001	England	370	E08000016	Barnsley	Schools	176	117	87	3	66	139	99	63	1	79
2024	June	Local authority	E92000001	England	800	E06000022	Bath and North East Somerset	Schools	135	83	74	1	56	107	73	37	0	60
2024	June	Local authority	E92000001	England	822	E06000055	Bedford	Schools	122	83	67	5	55	98	73	48	2	56

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 10 variables

Variable name	Variable description
completed_1_or_more_courses	Completed 1 or more course
completed_2_or_more_courses	Completed 2 or more courses
completed_3_or_more_courses	Completed 3 or more courses
completed_refresher_course	Completed refresher course
registered_for_1_or_more_courses	Registered for 1 or more course

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Footnotes

1. The total number of schools includes state-funded schools and non-maintained special schools that have at least one pupil in reception year.
2. 'z' indicates data is not applicable.
3. In local authorities where course registration and completion has reduced since June 2024, this was either due to data cleansing or to deletion of accounts.

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