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 11 July 2024

Last updated 11 July 2024

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 2024
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Number of providers
  • Number of providers with at least one accredited graduate staff member
  • Percentage of providers with at least one accredited graduate staff member
• Filters:
  • Type of entitlement
  • Type of PVI provider
• Time period: 2018 to 2024

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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
2024	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						15-hour entitlement	Total	Total	30577	11321	37	600602	303369	51
2024	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						15-hour entitlement	Private and voluntary providers	Total	17431	8248	47	518750	260564	50
2024	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						15-hour entitlement	Private and voluntary providers	Early years childcare providers	17131	8145	48	512870	257847	50
2024	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						15-hour entitlement	Private and voluntary providers	Sure start children's centres	173	70	40	5101	2322	46
2024	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						15-hour entitlement	Private and voluntary providers	Other private or voluntary providers	127	33	26	779	395	51

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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, data cleaning exercises with local authorities each year have improved data quality. Provider types have become more accurately recorded over the years and caution should therefore be taken when comparing changes in provider types between years, particularly for childminders and state-funded governor run provision, which has been reclassified from other in some instances.
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.
6. Local authority day nurseries are included in the private, voluntary and independent providers category because data for these providers is returned on the early years census.

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