Data set from Education provision: children under 5 years of age

9 PVI providers with at least one accredited graduate staff member

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Published 6 July 2023

Last updated 6 July 2023

Number of private, voluntary, and independent providers delivering government-funded early years provision with at least one accredited graduate staff member, and number of children registered at these providers, by entitlement and provider type (national only). 

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Data set details

• Theme: Early years
• Publication: Education provision: children under 5 years of age
• Release: Reporting year 2023
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Number of providers
  • Number of providers with at least one accredited graduate staff member
  • Percentage of children registered at providers with at least one accredited graduate staff member
• Filters:
  • Type of entitlement
  • Type of PVI provider
• Time period: 2018 to 2023

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	region_code	region_name	old_la_code	new_la_code	la_name	entitlement_type	pvi_provider_type_group	pvi_provider_type	number_providers	number_providers_graduate_staff	percentage_providers_graduate_staff	number_children	number_children_providers_graduate_staff	percentage_children_providers_graduate_staff
2023	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						15-hour entitlement	Total	Total	30987	11594	37	625434	318543	51
2023	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						15-hour entitlement	Private and voluntary providers	Total	17811	8455	47	541067	272559	50
2023	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						15-hour entitlement	Private and voluntary providers	Early years childcare providers	17466	8341	48	534955	269736	50
2023	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						15-hour entitlement	Private and voluntary providers	Sure start children's centres	183	78	43	5284	2479	47
2023	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						15-hour entitlement	Private and voluntary providers	Other private or voluntary providers	162	36	22	828	344	42

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 8 variables

Variable name	Variable description
entitlement_type	Type of entitlement
number_children	Number of registered children
number_children_providers_graduate_staff	Number of registered children at providers with at least one accredited graduate staff member
number_providers	Number of providers
number_providers_graduate_staff	Number of providers with at least one accredited graduate staff member

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Footnotes

1. Children who split their entitlement across more than one private, voluntary or independent provider are only counted at the provider where they spend the majority of their time.
2. Since 2019, a data cleaning exercise with local authorities has improved data quality. Provider types are now more accurately recorded and caution should be taken when comparing across time.
3. State-funded governor-run provision is included in the private, voluntary and independent providers category because data for these providers is returned on the early years census.
4. Data collected in 2021 (and to a lesser extent 2022) was affected by the impact of COVID-19 uncertainty on providers and parents. Further information is available in the methodology note.
5. In some years, data for a small number of local authorities is of low reliability due to error. See methodology for more details.

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