Data set from Planned LA and school expenditure

Early years - unrounded data

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Published 28 September 2023

Last updated 28 September 2023

This file contains the figures for planned expenditure and places for early years for individual local authorities plus regional and national totals. Data is unrounded. 

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Data set details

• Theme: Finance and funding
• Publication: Planned LA and school expenditure
• Release: Financial year 2023-24
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Average base rate for entitlement hours for 2 year olds (spend per hour)
  • Average base rate for entitlement hours for 3 and 4 year olds (spend per hour)
  • Average funding rate for 2 year olds (spend per hour)
• Time period: 2017-18 to 2023-24

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_name	country_code	region_name	region_code	la_name	old_la_code	new_la_code	total_eysffbudget_3and4YearOlds	SEN_inclusion_fund_EYBlock_3and4YearOlds	SEN_inclusion_fund_HNBlock_3and4YearOlds	SEN_inclusion_fund_Total_3and4YearOlds	NumberHours_3and4YearOlds	AverageFundingRate_3and4YearOlds	AverageBaseRate_EntitlementHours_3and4YearOlds	ContingencyBudget_3and4YearOlds	CentrallyRetainedBudget_3and4YearOlds	EarlyYearsPupilPremium_3and4YearOlds	DisabilityAccessFund_3and4YearOlds	BudgetExtraLocalHours_3and4YearOlds	TotalEYSFFBudget_2YearOlds	SEN_inclusion_fund_EYBlock_2YearOlds	SEN_inclusion_fund_HNBlock_2YearOlds	SEN_inclusion_fund_Total_2YearOlds	NumberHours_2YearOlds	AverageFundingRate_2YearOlds	AverageBaseRate_2YearOlds	ContingencyBudget_2YearOlds	CentrallyRetainedBudget_2YearOlds
201718	Financial year	National	England	E92000001						2614264609	x	x	48264745	338280303	7.87	7.23	35842533	127829484	31836918	12446550	9587726	483987967	x	x	1891868	92093431	5.28	5.26	3852410	11518362
201718	Financial year	Regional	England	E92000001	East Midlands	E12000004				204226105	x	x	2615081	28587220	7.24	6.75	1367775	10224824	2574110	1002460	911403	36198018	x	x	38600	7226937	5.01	5.01	510784	360392
201718	Financial year	Regional	England	E92000001	East of England	E12000006				284363306	x	x	4305199	41162264	7.01	6.54	2422344	13703591	3241478	1401150	1003	44149636	x	x	100899	8467940	5.23	5.21	381985	1612512
201718	Financial year	Regional	England	E92000001	Inner London	E13000001				217853901	x	x	8371171	16936174	13.36	11.61	7324719	14904493	2408722	672600	7263517	34454524	x	x	0	5476665	6.29	6.29	373987	1496320
201718	Financial year	Regional	England	E92000001	North East	E12000001				117621743	x	x	1672933	10961548	10.88	9.77	1433926	4127236	2177899	673500	0	29953140	x	x	40000	5868776	5.11	5.1	266283	463824

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 21 variables

Variable name	Variable description
AverageBaseRate_2YearOlds	Average base rate for entitlement hours for 2 year olds (spend per hour)
AverageBaseRate_EntitlementHours_3and4YearOlds	Average base rate for entitlement hours for 3 and 4 year olds (spend per hour)
AverageFundingRate_2YearOlds	Average funding rate for 2 year olds (spend per hour)
AverageFundingRate_3and4YearOlds	Average funding rate for 3 and 4 year olds (spend per hour)
BudgetExtraLocalHours_3and4YearOlds	Other spend on early education - budget for extra local hours for 3 and 4 year olds

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Footnotes

1. To reduce burdens on local authorities during the COVID-19 pandemic, data for 2020-21 was not collected.

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